BLE and SmartPhone Connect

[KyeongTaek Jeong]

Hi

I have some questions.

I'm trying to communicate with BLE using 9160DK with my smartphone.

1. Do you have a simple example?
2. Can I send videos or pictures using BLE?
3. Can I send pictures I received through my smartphone using BLE using LTE?

Do you have an example if you have numbers 2 and 3?

[ovrebekk]

Hi

1. There are some unofficial examples on our Github page showing how you can transfer images over BLE from an nRF52 device to a smart phone:

https://github.com/NordicPlayground?q=image&type=&language=

2. Yes, the examples I link to above allow you to do that. It uses a image sensor that takes pictures and converts it to JPG format, which is then read out over SPI and transmitted to the smart phone over BLE. 

3. Do you mean you want to send the image data over LTE instead, using the nRF9160?

We don't have an example for this unfortunately, but it should be possible. What is important to know is that most IoT LTE subscriptions put a relatively small cap on the amount of data you can send, so if you send a lot of images you might run out of data. 

Best regards
Torbjørn