nRF Connect for Windows 10

[gaminn]

Is there nRF Connect or similar program that enables development of BLE applications for Windows 10 (using native BLE API - ideally universal windows platform)?

[Hung Bui]

Hi Gaminn,

What do you want to do with the tool? Do you need a generic tool with multifunction like what we have with the nRF Connect or you want to develop your own application on Windows 10 to connect to your BLE device ? If you simply want to make an application you can have a look at this heart rate example. It uses the native Windows10 APIs so no dongle required.

Other than that I don't know of any similar tool like nRF Connect on Windows 10.

[Hung Bui]

I don't have a Windows 10 machine here to test at this moment but last time I tested (ab 2-3 years ago) with a Windows 8 machine , it worked fine for me at that time.

We do provide some example for Windows Phone OS as on Github here. As far as I know the API on Windows Phone and on Windows for PC are pretty similar and the developer told me that we can make the example works on Windows PC with some minor modification. I guess it s worth a try.