How to use the connectivity board as a BT device in Linux host system?

RE: How to use the connectivity board as a BT device in Linux host system?

Michael Lawton — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 01:30:34 GMT

This might also help: mynewt.apache.org/.../

RE: How to use the connectivity board as a BT device in Linux host system?

Carles — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 12:26:04 GMT

It's quite likely.

RE: How to use the connectivity board as a BT device in Linux host system?

Henry — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 06:04:44 GMT

Ok, thanks. Does your product line have such kind of connectivity IC in the future?

RE: How to use the connectivity board as a BT device in Linux host system?

Carles — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 14:00:29 GMT

To use BlueZ to interface with a Nordic nRF chip you would need firmware running on the chip that implemented the HCI interface. That is not something that Nordic provides right now, so what you are trying to accomplish is currently not possible with Nordic firmware.

RE: How to use the connectivity board as a BT device in Linux host system?

Stian Røed Hafskjold — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 13:55:23 GMT

Using bluez to control the chip is not possible as far as I know.

The link in your comment (www.nordicsemi.com/.../47013) is the linux driver for the nRF51. You can try that out. There is a few examples in the driver bundle, but unfortunately it is not very well documented.

The newest version of the driver is available here, github.com/.../pc-ble-driver, with a newer version of the documentation.

Documentation for building:
github.com/.../README.md

Documentation for usage:
github.com/.../README.md

Firmware is included in the resources folder, and is merged with the softdevice.

RE: How to use the connectivity board as a BT device in Linux host system?

Henry — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 09:08:12 GMT

BTW, I found a Linux driver may related with our usage. Any doc to talk about it?

nRF51-BLE-Driver-Linux: www.nordicsemi.com/.../47013

Thanks.