nRF52840 Dongle as IoT gateway entry point

[PViv69]

Hi,

I'm currently experimenting with both the nRF52840 dongle and preview development kit and my question is the following :

Using a generic LTE IoT gateway with a linux distro (let's say mLinux for instance) equiped with a full size USB port, is it possible to use the nRF52840 dongle to get and send data from/to nRF52840 powered devices from the gateway itself within the linux distro, and if so what's the protocol or procedure that needs to be followed ?

Illustration :

IoT Gateway <-- User Code --> USB Port <----- ??? -----> nRF52840 Dongle <------ BLE -------> BLE Devices equiped with nRF52840 SoC.

The <----- ??? -----> part the one I'm unsure of. The "User Code" part would be a program that I wrote to process the data I got from the BLE devices.

I know of the application "nRF Connect", but what I'm looking for is more of a command line approach (as my distro is only interracted with in SSH through PuTTy). Is there a tool that allows you to do that ?

Thanks in advance,

Regars.

[Susheel Nuguru]

I am not an expert in this, but i can see that there is atleast a python interface for the COAP library . You can use it to make your own script, but I am not sure about the interfaces for other features. Sorry, mostly this reply was not of much help.