Can the nRF52840 dongle be used as a Bluetooth 5.0 peripheral via Raspberry Pi 3 running linux

RE: Can the nRF52840 dongle be used as a Bluetooth 5.0 peripheral via Raspberry Pi 3 running linux

Martin Rev — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 22:09:02 GMT

We tested a module from Laird and the range was very good. You can find some documents on their site including their range test. Worth looking at if you don't have to design your own module.

RE: Can the nRF52840 dongle be used as a Bluetooth 5.0 peripheral via Raspberry Pi 3 running linux

Aurele — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 19:59:36 GMT

Hello Martin,

Thank you very much for the feedback. We also succeeded to make it work with a yocto platform and it seems to work very well. This only drawbacks is the radio range that is quite low. I ll try to make my own board with a nrf52840 and a power amplifier in the coming month.

Thx again 🙂

RE: Can the nRF52840 dongle be used as a Bluetooth 5.0 peripheral via Raspberry Pi 3 running linux

Martin Rev — Mon, 21 Sep 2020 19:25:29 GMT

Aurele

[quote userid="55583" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/47749/can-the-nrf52840-dongle-be-used-as-a-bluetooth-5-0-peripheral-via-raspberry-pi-3-running-linux/241463"]i'm also very interested by using HCI-USB with nordic nrf52840 dongle since i'm developing a gateway. Is there some nordic user that tried the sample application given in the previous post and that could give me some feedback about it ?[/quote]

I just tried it with the dongle and a RPI zero W as host (USB OTG cable). It worked find and I could use bluetoothctl to scan another BLE device (BL 4.2 - another pi zero W). Right now it its difficult to determine if the host supports the COded Phy features

RE: Can the nRF52840 dongle be used as a Bluetooth 5.0 peripheral via Raspberry Pi 3 running linux

Aurele — Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:03:05 GMT

Hi,

i'm also very interested by using HCI-USB with nordic nrf52840 dongle since i'm developing a gateway. Is there some nordic user that tried the sample application given in the previous post and that could give me some feedback about it ?
Thank you in advance,
Best regards,
Aurélien

RE: Can the nRF52840 dongle be used as a Bluetooth 5.0 peripheral via Raspberry Pi 3 running linux

Jørgen Holmefjord — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 16:05:31 GMT

What Martin Lesund means is that it supports all Bluetooth Low Energy features from Bluetooth 5.0 specifications. Bluetooth Classic (BR/EDR) is not supported, even though this is part of this Core specification version.

RE: Can the nRF52840 dongle be used as a Bluetooth 5.0 peripheral via Raspberry Pi 3 running linux

GlideDev_Gil — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 15:43:17 GMT

Hi Jorgen, I am confused.

You say:

[quote userid="14926" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/47749/can-the-nrf52840-dongle-be-used-as-a-bluetooth-5-0-peripheral-via-raspberry-pi-3-running-linux/189304"]Note that the nRF52840 does only support Bluetooth Low Energy[/quote]

but Martin Lesund claims otherwise here:

Is BLE 5.0 same as Bluetooth 5.0

Thanks

RE: Can the nRF52840 dongle be used as a Bluetooth 5.0 peripheral via Raspberry Pi 3 running linux

Jørgen Holmefjord — Mon, 27 May 2019 12:04:36 GMT

Hi,

We do not support HCI in the SDK, but it is supported through Zephyr: nWP029 - Zephyr Bluetooth Low Energy Controller

You can find a sample application to HCI-USB on this page.

Note that the nRF52840 does only support Bluetooth Low Energy, you will not be able to use it as a dongle for Bluetooth Classic connections.

Best regards,
Jørgen