nRFConnect for Desktop - How to see more characters and in text format...?

[Pankaj Gupta]

See attachment - enlarge if it's too small. How can I get nRF Connect on my Windows 10 laptop to bring more than 20 characters, and also print in text (instead of hex values)...? Where is the configuration...? Or what do I do on the source code on the firmware on the Nordic chip's board...?

[Sigurd]

Hi,

1) The 20 bytes you are seeing is the ATT payload packet. For Bluetooth 4.0/4.1, 20 bytes is the maximum ATT payload for each BLE packet, and this is the maximum supported length with the nRF51 SoftDevices(used in the nRF51 dongle).

With nRF52 you have support for ATT payload up to 244 bytes, so if you instead use a nRF52-DK with nRFConnect for Desktop, and the peripheral/central you connect with also support longer ATT packets, you should be able to get more than 20 bytes.

2) Unfortunately, ASCII hex is the only supported option right now. I have forwarded your request of viewing the values in text instead to the nRF Connect Desktop developers.