BT4 usb dongle with bluesoleil

RE: BT4 usb dongle with bluesoleil

run_ar — Mon, 22 Feb 2016 14:38:29 GMT

Are you using bluesoleil as a development tool or for end product purposes. If it is for development I would recommend using our pc-ble-driver or just use a phone as suggested in the comments.

A central will not send any packets, instead it will be scanning for advertisements. However this requires a lot more power than sending advertisement packet and isn't a very common approach. As long as power isn't a limitation I don't see any reason this wouldn't work.

Most iOS phones can be used as advertisers. If I remember correctly iOS has had peripheral support since iOS 7 (could be 6). For Android I think this was introduced with version 5.

RE: BT4 usb dongle with bluesoleil

herve bourricaud — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 07:49:10 GMT

Thanks for your answer...

about the USB dongle it's TBW-106UB v02r ( manufacturer page so I think it's BT4 ! I do not see how to use it...

about phone as BLE periphal... I keep this in mind !

RE: BT4 usb dongle with bluesoleil

Keton — Thu, 18 Feb 2016 21:12:03 GMT

According to manufacturer page TBW-106UB dongle supports Bluetooth classic 2.1 whereas nRF5x chips use Bluetooth LE aka Smart. This is very different protocol. In order to talk to BLE devices you need BLE enabled dongle i.e. nRF51-Dongle

As for mobile phones most Android devices can't act as BLE peripheral. Even recent flagship devices like Nexus 5. It is also firmware version dependent (preview versions of Android Marshmallow for N5 had BLE adveriser enabled but it was removed in final release). So currently I wouldn't count on that functionality. If you have particular device you want to test install Nordics Master Controll panel for Android and chceck if "Advertiser" tab works.