UART monitor PC

[Gerbert]

Hi, 

we are now using nRF Toolbox -> Logger tool on our phone to monitor Thingy91 application information via UART/BLE.

Now we would to monitor/log the same information on our Window PC (in order to collect historical information), using Teraterm/Putty for example.  

What would be the best tooling/solution? 

Thanks

[Charlie]

Hi Paul,

You can have a try with nRF Connect for Desktop -> Serial Terminal APP, and it can show logs from nRF9160 on Thingy91.

Best regards,

Charlie

[Gerbert]

Hi Charlie,

thanks. Thing is we like to connect via bluetooth. nRF Connect only shows local COM ports.

[Charlie]

Hi Paul,

We do not have something exactly same on PC.nRF Connect for Desktop -> Bluetooth Low Energy app can read out NUS anyway, do you think you can use this app directly?

Otherwise, you have to develop your ow app by referring to https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/pc-nrfconnect-ble.

The above solutions need a Nordic BLE dongle plug in to your PC( see https://docs.nordicsemi.com/bundle/nrf-connect-ble/page/index.html), if you want to use BLE hardware within your PC, you need to refer to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/microsoft/windows-universal-samples/bluetoothle/.

Best regards,

Charlie

[Gerbert]

Hi Charlie,

Bluetooth Low Energy could be usefull. Only NUS data is logged as hex. We prefer to get the output as readable string format.

[Charlie]

Hi Paul,

Unfortunately, this is what it has now for general usage.

I see there is a feature request https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/pc-nrfconnect-ble/issues/261.

Please give comments and I will ping developer to draw attention about this request.

Best regards,

Charlie

[Gerbert]

Hi Charlie,

I have added some comments in the feature request.

Thanks.

[Charlie]

Hi Paul,

I have an update from our development team for your request.

Thee BLE app has been completely on hold for a while, due to the architectural change of the app we will no longer support the old ble app. The old ble app is using pc–ble–driver– js which is already deprecated. We plan to design a new ble app which will use a new library called nrf-ble-lib, this feature will be considered for the new ble app.

Sorry for this news. This feature will not come in short time on BLE app.

Best regards,

Charlie