Are pc drivers published to windows update

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Hi 
 I am evaluating the production of a BLE product and your chip solution looks promising. 
 In my case the bluetooth will be connected to PC and it should be recognized as a Bluetooth device without manually installing the pc driver. 
 I want to know if you publish chip drivers to Windows Update? 
 https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/dashboard/publish-a-driver-to-windows-update

Eddi · Answer

Hello Karl Ylvisaker 
 The BLE chip will be connected to PC through USB port. The PC should be able to recognize it as a bluetooth device without the need to install pc driver. There are many devices that are detected as bluetooth without installing any driver. 
 Is there any way I can do that with nordic chip? Any provided tutorial for Windows bluetooth firmware would be helpful.

Karl Ylvisaker · Answer

Hello Eddi, Yes, this is a fairly normal practice - but what will your BLE device be doing? In order for windows to communicate with your device, windows will need to know what to expect from your device. If you intend for the device to just be powered by the USB port, that is one thing - but if you intend for the BLE device to receive data that it passes on to Windows, then it will need some kind of program or application running on the windows end, to receive and process the received data. I am not familiar with making windows applications, but I found this tutorial by Microsoft that sets up an "advertising watcher". If you combine this with the ble_peripheral beacon example then you should be able to see the beacons advertisements in your windows application. The important thing there would be to familiarize yourself with the Microsoft Bluetooth Low-Energy API. Best regards, Karl

Are pc drivers published to windows update

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