RedBear nano v2 as Dongle

[mrmrtowers]

Hello, Is it possible to use a RedBear V2 with the DAPlink as a Bluetooth dongle, apparently, the DAPlink can function as a USB-UART bridge. I'm new to SoC and am trying to use the Redbear to connect nRF52832 powered smartwatches to a Raspberry Pi.

[awneil]

mrmrtowers said:

I'm new to SoC

What do you mean by that? 

"SoC" simply stands for "System on Chip" ...

The DAPLink is a Redbear product - so you'd have to contact them for support with that. In particular, whether it would work with RPi

If it does, indeed, give you a USB-to-UART bridge (which is entirely feasible and commonplace), then this project would be no different to just using a separate USB-to-UART link; eg, an FTDI cable.

So you'd have to write code on the RPi to talk to a serial port, and code on the module to be controlled via the UART.

[awneil]

Or just use an RPi with built-in Bluetooth ...

[mrmrtowers]

Sorry by new I mean that I do not have much experience programming MCUs. I am attempting to remove the smartphone out of the connection between smartwatch and online application. So I want to transfer information from the smartwatch to the raspberry pi through the redbear. Unfortunately their support is not great. The redbear product uses an nRF52832. Also I would like to eventually use bluetooth 5 which no RPI supports at the moment, and the RPI 3B+ is not available in South Africa yet. 

[bjorn-spockeli]

You could try run our pc-ble-driver (which also has high-level Python and Node.js Javascript bindings) on the Raspberry Pi. 

The pc-ble-driver a set of static and shared libraries that provide SoftDevice functionality to the application via serial port communication with an nRF5 connectivity chip running the SoftDevice and connectivity software.

Best regards

Bjørn

[awneil]

mrmrtowers said:

I do not have much experience programming MCUs.

So why not just get a BLE dongle which is supported on the RPi - so that it will just work with the native support?