Connecting nRF52832 to the nRF52840 dongle

[Maher Shakir]

Hey,

I am running the ble_hid_mouse example on the nRF52832 with SDK15.2 and connected a joystick to replace the buttons commands. now i wanna use the nRF52840 as a slave so that the joystick (mouse) signal is sent to the dongle and can be used in a computer that doesn't have Bluetooth capabilities. I'll attach the code here and please let me know if something, the USB protocol maybe, needs to be added. or if something needs to be done in the dongle (i.e softdevice, adding the hex file of my program in the dongle), am not sure. this one step is the last step in my project, so help is very much appreciated.

main.c

Please let me know if my question is not clear or any more information is needed to answer my question,

Thanks,

Maher

[awneil]

If you want the dongle to be seen as an HID by the PC, then you will have to implement USB HID on the dongle.

[Maher Shakir]

Do i need to combine both softdevice and USB HID generic hex files to implement it? Also is there a way to combine softdevice hex file with the program hex as in the ble_blinky example?

referring to both https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/tutorials/b/getting-started/posts/nrf52840-dongle-programming-tutorial

and https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/36946/examples-for-nrf52840-dongle threads, I see it was an issue applying both hex files in previews versions. is that solved now with version2.6.2?

awneil said:

If you want the dongle to be seen as an HID by the PC, then you will have to implement USB HID on the dongle

Will this result in receiving the joystick signal and convert it to USB and no other implementation needed?

Thank you,

[Maher Shakir]

Ok I was able to to compile the USBD example and I believe this is making the dongle be seen as a USB HID, right? but now how to pair it? because the nrf connect doesn't allow me to pair unless the dongle is in DFU mode i guess right?

[awneil]

Maher Shakir said:

I believe this is making the dongle be seen as a USB HID, right?

You can verify that very easily: when you plug it in, does it appear as an HID device in the Device Manager?

[Maher Shakir]

Maher Shakir said:

but now how to pair it?