find nRF51 dongle with hciconfig

[bbslhb]

We need to compare the signal of nRF51 dongle with our product.

How to find nRF51 dongle(nRF51422) with hciconfig in Linux?

firmware: PCA10031    1.1.0    2018.39

Guess I need a firmware to make nRF51 dongle work in hci mode?

[Hung Bui]

Hi,

You mean you want to scan for the nRF51 signal when using BlueZ in Linux to scan  ? 

The nRF51 dongle comes without any code on it. You need to flash something on it to test. Maybe the same firmware as your product ? 

Or you can use an example in nRF5 SDK v11 and earlier. 

[bbslhb]

Yes.

It seemed that the dongle worked in USB-uart mode.

hciconfig need the dongle to work in USB-hci mode.

I download the nRF51SDK1000dc26b5e but didn't find USB-hci about my nRF51 dongle PCA10031.

[Hung Bui]

Hi, 

HCI is not supported on nRF51. I assume you want to connect the nRF51 dongle to the PC to allow it to do bluetooth ? 

It's not the purpose of the PCA10031. If you want to use it as the back end for the PC, you need to use the pc ble driver not the hcitool. 

On nRF52 we do have support for HCI, you can find it in the Zephyr project here.