How can I communicate wirelessly with the Oculus Touch nRF51822 Bluetooth?

[DrChuy]

I am working on a project that requires me to wirelessly communicate with and program a left hand Oculus Touch controller, since dismantling it will cause damage. The controller uses the Nordic Semiconductor nRF51822 Bluetooth Smart and 2.4 GHz proprietary SoC seen here in Step 9: www.ifixit.com/.../75109 My initial thought is that I could use the nRF51 Development Kit seen here: www.nordicsemi.com/.../eng-GB ...But I am unsure because I am so new at this. The end result I'm hoping for is for the Oculus Touch controller to communicate with two VESC motor drivers seen here: diyelectricskateboard.com/.../torque-esc-vesc-bldc-electronic-speed-controller But I do not know how to proceed.

[ovrebekk]

Hi

Have you investigated if there are som API's you can use on the PC side to read out the information from the connected controllers?

This article seems to imply that something like that might be available.

I think this is a better approach than trying to reverse engineer the controller, if that is what you are trying to do.

Best regards
Torbjørn Øvrebekk