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Error when launching nRF Connect for desktop on Linux.

I have recently installed nRF Connect for desktop V3.0.0 on my ubuntu machine and I installed the Bluetooth Low Energy App but it doesn't launch and I keep getting this error : 

   " Error while probing devices: Error occured when get serial numbers. Errorcode: CouldNotOpenDLL (0x7) Lowlevel error: JLINKARM_DLL_NOT_FOUND (ffffff9c) " and I can't seem to find this missing file. Also when I tried to download JLink from SEGGER website I went through all the steps to get to the download link of the .deb file but when the download finishes I get a .html file and not the .deb. I don't really get what's going on.

Please can anyone help me.

  • No I don't want to use any dongle I wish to advertise a custom ble service using nRF connect for desktop just like the mobile app but I don't get how to do that. Is it possible ??

  • No, you need to use Bluez,etc to control regular BT HW. nRF connect desktop will only work with the Softdevice stack. You could try noble if you comfortable programming with Javascript: https://github.com/noble/noble-device. There are also Python modules available.

  • Yes I'm trying to do it using Bluez and I will try out what you suggested. Tank you very much for helping me I really appreciate it.

  • we have installed the following debs

    -JLink_Linux_V684a_x86_64.deb

    -nRF-Command-Line-Tools_10_10_0_Linux-amd64.deb

    After that my programmer(1.4.6 , nrfConnect 3.6.0) starts without any error and I managed to flash my Thingy91

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