Bluetooth router for VMWare Server

[Frederic Precioso]

Hello,

Could you please let me know if any of your devices would be suitable for our specific configuration?

We have a WMware server running many VMs. We would like to connect each VM to one given bluetooth robot (one given robot for one given VM).
Here is the configuration we would like to build:
- Connect one of your products to our VMware server through Ethernet
- Assign a bluetooth "virtual dongle" to each VM
- Connect through bluetooth one given robot (among 10) to one given VM (among 10 too)
- Pupils could access "their robot" remotely to work on their robotic project even during the lock-down from their school. The blockly programming interface requires bluetooth to put the code produced in the interface (possibly remotely) inside the robot.

Thank you very much for your help.

Best regards,
Prof. Frederic Precioso

[Didrik Rokhaug]

Hi,

 

Could you please let me know if any of your devices would be suitable for our specific configuration?

 Yes, I believe they are.

However, this isn't really a problem that can be solved from the BLE chip.

Our BLE SoCs supports serialisation (either through pc_ble_driver and the nRF5 SDK, or HCI with the nRF Connect SDK). That will let you use the devices as "BLE dongles" controlled by a host computer, either over UART, or in some cases USB.

However, how this is handled, and how each dongle is given (or control over each BLE connection is given) to each VM is up to the host OS and its drivers.

And how that problem is solved, is unfortunately not something we can help you with.

Best regards,

Didrik