RE: Windows 8.1 BLE and UART/Serial Port Terminal Program

Sad~Sugar — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 12:15:32 GMT

Hi I have the same problem with you. So how do you solve it? I want to conmunicate with PC via BLE4.0 just like the normal Ble2.0 moddle. Can I have your E-mail? Mine is 406662269@qq.com. Thank you~

RE: Windows 8.1 BLE and UART/Serial Port Terminal Program

Stefan Birnir Sverrisson — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 11:00:30 GMT

I have used a PC terminal (RealTerm) to communicate with the UART. To communicate with the PCA10001 board, you can do that directly through the USB interface. On the nRF6310 motherboard, you need to connect the TX and RX pins as described here, and then connect a serial-to-serial (DB9) cable from the board to your PC (then connects on serial port #1 on the PC). Additionally, connect the CTS and RTS pins in a similar way as the RX and TX pins, look the pin settings in the ble_app_uart firmware (uart_conf.h) to see what pins are configured for the RTS and CTS. I have also done this successfully with a Serial-to-USB cable, which is convenient for PCs that do not have serial port connector (DB9) on the PC. If you use Serial-to-USB cable, you can open Device Manager on your PC to monitor what serial port pops up when you connnect the USB cable to the PC, then you configure your terminal program to connect on that serial port.

Below is my setting in the RealTerm terminal program when I have nRF6310 motherboard connected with a serial-to-serial cable to my PC and connect with the ble_app_uart firmware.