How to interface with NUART from PC?

RE: How to interface with NUART from PC?

awneil — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 13:15:11 GMT

[quote userid="98118" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/70828/how-to-interface-with-nuart-from-pc/290871#290871"]using the host's own bluetooth driver [/quote]

In that case, it's just the standard Windows APIs:

docs.microsoft.com/.../bluetooth-low-energy-overview

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/microsoft/windows-universal-samples/bluetoothle/

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RE: How to interface with NUART from PC?

Jørgen Holmefjord — Mon, 25 Jan 2021 14:17:07 GMT

Hi,

We do not have any applications that interfaces with the built-in BLE of the host, all our Windows/Linux tools (nRF Connect, pc-ble-driver, etc.) runs through an external dongle, where we have control over what is supported.

You may check out the suggestions in this thread.

Best regards,
Jørgen

RE: How to interface with NUART from PC?

engineer287 — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 10:51:38 GMT

Thanks for your reply, however I don't think that repo is what I'm looking for.

pc-ble-driver consists of a set of static and shared libraries that provide SoftDevice functionality to the application via serial port communication with an nRF5 connectivity chip running the SoftDevice and connectivity software...

In that repo, the application is running on host (e.g. GNU/Linux) and the BLE functionality is augmented to it through an external HW dongle (nRF5 connectivity chip) which uses the dongle's serial port as the communication layer.

What I want, is to directly communicate with the target (nRF52832) through the BLE layer using the host's own bluetooth driver (Realtek combined module or whatever).

Problem is, for modules like HC05, with SPP over classic BL, the profile is "emulated" and served as a (virtual) Serial Port. But for NUART, this can't be done. Hence I'm looking for a script/program/software to do the same thing.

This functionality is available in GUI mode via the Nordic/Adafruit android apps I mentioned but I can't find similar thing for Linux/Window.

RE: How to interface with NUART from PC?

awneil — Sat, 23 Jan 2021 21:05:59 GMT

github.com/.../pc-ble-driver