Using nRF52840 dongle as usb central device

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Hi,

Our product is based on BLE 4.2 / 5 peripheral devices and PC application (windows 7 & 10 environment) as central device.  

we try to use nRF52840 dongle and also other nRF52840 based usb dongles (e.g. FANSTEL BT840F) for our central device.

Both dongles use CDC ACM windows driver i.e. serial over USB but I wasn't able to communicate with them using teraterm terminal.

Is there a document / demo code which explain communication API? Alternatively, Can I get, please,  relevant part of source code of nRF connect application as reference?

Is there windows BT driver for nRF52840 (win 7 & 10) which enable using dot net BT API instead of serial protocol?

Which example code is best as starting point for developing dongle FW?

Thanks in advance

[Vidar Berg]

Hi,

Source code for nRF connect and pc-ble-driver is available our github page here: https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor. Windows 7 does not have native support for BLE so it may better to use pc-ble-driver/nRF connect instead of implementing a standard HCI controller on the dongle.