Generic HID example

[bassam]

Is there an example somewhere to show how to use the "BLE_APPEARANCE_GENERIC_HID"  to transfer data over BLE to a another BT device such as a laptop ?

The HID mouse and HID keyboard examples works fine, but would like to know how to use the Generic HID device to transfer binary data.

[ovrebekk]

Hi 

What kind of application or service do you want to receive the data on the host side?

Any particular reason you want to use HID, rather than a purpose built proprietary BLE service?

Best regards
Torbjørn

[grantb4]

Hi, I have a couple of followup questions for this thread.  The device I'm making is intended to be a microcontroller connected to an nRF module via UART.

In my case I want to be able to do one at least of the following on a bonded Windows PC (less interested in phone or tablet uses), using the PC's built-in Bluetooth. It would be OK to specify min Win OS version, but would rather not install new drivers or Python or anything like that on the PC.

• Create either an HID keyboard or generic/raw HID device as mentioned below in the next top-level post.
• Using a service of some kind is OK as long as there is some API on the PC-side that can talk to it.

Main question now is, given the above, is it better to start with an nRF528xx over and nRF518xx part?