RE: Standards based File Transfer support in mobile/desktop platforms?

Anthony Ambuehl — Mon, 14 Aug 2023 20:02:46 GMT

I like your idea, the smp server communicates in a the protocol SMP. Unfortunately SMP only has 1 implementation.. mcumgr which only supports Bluetooth on linux and macos. I guess it might work if more implementations were available for mobile and windows..

RE: Standards based File Transfer support in mobile/desktop platforms?

nordicator_prim3 — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 19:32:10 GMT

Hi,

I don't have a lot of experience with this but did want to mention that if you're using Zephyr then the "smp_server" example has the option for filesystem support over bluetooth. You can test it by having a file on flash and using the "NRF connect Device Manager" android/IOS app to download your file to the phone or to send a file from the phone to your flash. That'd be a proof of concept, but any platform that has an SMP library should be able to support moving files via this method.

It's kind of a lot to set up just for moving files though - the main purpose for it (in my understanding) is to allow for firmware updates etc.