https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/48989/can-we-use-the-nrf52840-dongle-be-used-as-a-ble-bluetooth-5-central-mode-adapter-in-linuxIs there a firmware file you have that allows the dongle to function as a central for BLE with bluetooth 5 completely standalone. We don&#39;t want to have to use nrfConnect or anything third party. We just want to plug it in to the USB drive like a Bluetoothen-USTelligent Community 13Wed, 26 Jun 2019 05:23:22 GMThttps://devzone.nordicsemi.com/thread/194751?ContentTypeID=1Wed, 26 Jun 2019 05:23:22 GMT137ad170-7792-4731-bb38-c0d22fbe4515:c9104069-3d60-4b72-b1a5-7c7e62e1a4e2Turbo J<p>The <a href="https://www.zephyrproject.org/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Zephyr project</a> has <a href="https://docs.zephyrproject.org/latest/samples/bluetooth/hci_usb/README.html" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">example code</a> that can do just that when using Linux as the Host OS. Not directly supported from Nordic, though.</p> <p>See this <a href="https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/nordic/nordic-blog/b/blog/posts/nrf5x-support-within-the-zephyr-project-rtos" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">blog post. </a></p><div style="clear:both;"></div>