https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/40149/i-want-to-scan-broadcast-the-bluetooth-5-beacon-signal-by-connecting-the-nrf52840-dongle-and-raspberry-pi-3-bI 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 Raspberryen-USTelligent Community 13Tue, 06 Nov 2018 13:06:17 GMThttps://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/156162?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 06 Nov 2018 13:06:17 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:d5e1e650-bef7-4d06-96ac-975484b12976Marjeris Romero<p>You can also take a look at the answers in <a href="https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/39106/nrf52840-dongle-to-raspberry-pi-b">this similar question</a>.</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/156154?ContentTypeID=1Tue, 06 Nov 2018 12:50:19 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:0d7e8445-5452-4760-befe-815789458fe2Marjeris Romero<p>Hi,</p> <p>It is possible to do this, but you will need to run the <a href="https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/pc-ble-driver">pc-ble-driver</a> in your raspberry pi and use a <a href="http://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.nordic.infocenter.sdk5.v14.0.0%2Flib_serialization.html&amp;cp=4_0_0_3_33">serialization/connectivity FW </a>on the nRF52840 dongle, found in&nbsp;</p> <p>\nRF5_SDK_15.2.0_9412b96\examples\connectivity\ble_connectivity\pca10059</p> <p>But you should first make sure that the Bluetooth 5 beacons actually make use of some of the BT 5 features listed <a href="https://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Products/Bluetooth-5">here.</a> 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+.</p> <p>Best Regards,</p> <p>Marjeris</p><div style="clear:both;"></div>