[DFU] nRFutil with standard HCI on Windows Destop

[Gaétan]

Hi,

Is exist a tool like nRFutil to make DFU from windows with standard BLE ?

I have found this: https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/pc-ble-driver but I thing it's not compatible with standard BLE on Windows.

Regards,

Gaétan

[Vidar Berg]

Hi,

Unfortunately. The pc-ble-driver achieves Bluetooth connectivity by sending serialized commands to the Softdevice programmed onto the connectivity chip. We don't have an example that demonstrates DFU with the windows stack. 

Regards,

Vidar

[Gaétan]

What's the best pratice to develop a firmware update from windows PC ovre HCI ?

[Vidar Berg]

I don't have any experience with BLE development on windows, but guess it mostly depends on what programming language you prefer using. The Noble project may be alternative: https://github.com/noble/noble

Some relevant API documentation from Microsoft: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/bluetooth/bluetooth-functions . Note that Windows 7 does not have native support for BLE.