Windows connection to multiple similar ble devices

[Lodge]

Hi, I have written a windows 8.1 application to connect to my custom nrf51 device. It is used for configuration and is set up without requiring a password (I do not need any security). I connect to the it using the windows UI and can communicate with that device fine. However I have hundreds of these boards to configure. Does this mean I have to go through the (tediously long) windows pairing UI for every single board? Is there a way to make windows pair to the same type of device? Could I use the same device ID so any one of my devices will connect automatically with windows? Any help would be massively appreciated. Thanks, Lodge.

[Hung Bui]

Hi Lodge,

If you only have one device running at a time, then it's fine with BLE spec. I assume that you only use that single address for configuration only.

But if all of them can be configured the same way you can think of just simply copy the flash after you configured one device and flash to all other devices.

I'm not sure what kind of configuration you will have, if it's not the same for all devices, can it be done directly via flash writing ?

[Lodge]

Hi hung, Thanks for the reply. I realised that I can set a public address for all the devices and (as they will only be connected one at a time), I can configure them as they will be automatically paired. Thanks again, Lodge.