PCA10031 NRF51 Dongle - Serial Communication protocol for stock firmware (installed by nRF Connect)

[ConnorOsborn]

How would I take a NRF51 Dongle that has the stock firmware from nRF Connect and communicate/send commands to it over something like PuTTY?  I've tried sending AT Commands to it but with no change or response.  So far, the only way I've seen serial control work is with a different firmware provided in the pc-ble-driver.  I would like to avoid using different firmware.

I would like to manually tell the dongle to search/connect/read/write to another BLE device.  Is there documentation for the protocol used?

OS: Windows 10

Edit:Changed NRF52 to NRF51

[awneil]

PCA10031 is the nNRF51 Dongle - not nRF52 !

I thought nRF Connect did use the pc-ble-driver ?

It is certainly not a plain-text protocol that you could use with PuTTY or the like.

Some info on using the pc-ble-driver here:

https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/51245/api-usage-documentation-for-pc-ble-driver-and-pc_ble_driver_py