Are there any recommended alternatives (& nordic plugins) to the discontinued Bluetooth Developer Studio? I'm looking for a tool to make the process of creating custom GATT profiles/services easier. Or does anyone have a download link for Bluetootth Developer Studio they can share?
Thanks!
I would download Segger Embedded Studio, which is free for Nordic SDK users. Then, I would take a look at this getting started tutorial, as well as this custom service tutorial.
This is not the reply one is expecting. BDS has nice gui interface that is easy to use to develop the Gatt sevices even for TI chips. Nordic has also a plugin and it is much better than manual mistakes.
Is BDS viable? It's abandonware without source code. I'm not thrilled with SES but at least it's maintained and it's not another in a long line of clunky Eclipse gcc wrappers (I'm looking at you, MCUXpresso/KDS/etc)
And what's up with all of these Eclipse IDEs anyway? You look the wrong way at an Eclipse work directory and the entire project has to be reimported to a new work directory with the loss of all of the settings.
We maintain SES & make improvements if necessary. I have not tried BDS, so I cannot comment. Regarding SES, if you run into any issues, support engineers at Nordic have extensive knowledge & will most likely be able to help. Keil is another option, but it can get quite expensive.
As sherif is alluding to, Segger Embedded Studio (SES) is entirely complementary to Bluetooth Developer Studio (BDS) - there is almost no overlap in functionality. We used BDS (+the nordic plugin) as a code generator and profile/service planning tool whereas SES is an IDE.
The Bluetooth SIG have killed off a useful & free tool and I still can't find any information on what the commercial or free alternative to it is. They could've made it open source abandonware, but I'm guessing its been sold off