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RedBear nano v2 as Dongle

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.

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  • 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.

  • 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. 

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  • 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. 

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