Only hex format supported by nRF Connect UART over BLE

RE: Only hex format supported by nRF Connect UART over BLE

liuxyu — Thu, 18 May 2017 12:30:48 GMT

Thank you very much!

RE: Only hex format supported by nRF Connect UART over BLE

Sigurd — Thu, 18 May 2017 12:20:46 GMT

Hi liuxyu,

Thank you for the feedback. I have contacted the developers of nRF-Connect for PC, and we will hopefully add support for this functionality in an upcoming release. The nRF-Connect for smartphone have this functionality, so it should also be added for the PC-version of nRF-Connect.

RE: Only hex format supported by nRF Connect UART over BLE

liuxyu — Wed, 17 May 2017 06:25:08 GMT

I know the hexadecimal is just the representation of data, but I need to use UART over BLE to test the device, can I find some alternative for nRF Connect. I can only find a UART over BLE app in Android. But I need to do it on PC.

RE: Only hex format supported by nRF Connect UART over BLE

RK — Wed, 17 May 2017 06:17:25 GMT

No you don't. The UART service just sends bytes, you don't need to transfer between anything and anything. If you have a text string, that's just bytes, send it one byte at a time.

'hexadecimal input and hexadecimal output' doesn't mean anything. That's just the representation of the data, underneath, it's a number between 0 and 255.