I want to scan (broadcast) the Bluetooth 5 beacon signal by connecting the nRF52840 dongle and Raspberry pi 3 B +

[mia choi]

I am a master student.
I am working on a project that uses Bluetooth 5 Beacon Scan.

I bought the nRF52840 dongle to scan the Bluetooth 5 Beacon

I want to scan the Bluetooth 5 beacon signal by plugging the nRF52840 dongle into the USB port of the Raspberry pi 3 B +.

As with other Bluetooth dongles, I plugged the nRF52840 dongle into a USB port and installed the bluz5.5 package.

I've read similar posts in the community, But I do not know how.. (I also do not know how to use nRF5-SDK-zip, nRF5x-Command-Line-Tools-Linux32 from raspberry pie..)

I would like to know how to easily use the nRF52840 dongle in Raspberry pi 3 B + environment.

I will be waiting for answers from many wise people.

[Marjeris Romero]

Hi,

It is possible to do this, but you will need to run the pc-ble-driver in your raspberry pi and use a serialization/connectivity FW on the nRF52840 dongle, found in 

\nRF5_SDK_15.2.0_9412b96\examples\connectivity\ble_connectivity\pca10059

But you should first make sure that the Bluetooth 5 beacons actually make use of some of the BT 5 features listed here. If the BT5 beacons are not using long range, extended advertisement or the higher throughtput mode, you still will be able to use BT 4.2 to scan and connect, and then the easiest will be to use the integrated BT4.2 of the Raspberry Pi 3 B+.

Best Regards,

Marjeris