What is the best way to deliver a desktop Bluetooth Smart application?

[HurleyResearch]

I will be selling various ble products. My customers can connect to and program the devices using their bluetooth smart phone or tablet.

I want them to have the option of using a desktop PC application instead of the phone or tablet.

What is the best path?

Must I sell them a special ble dongle? Can I use a nordic dongle that is available and inexpensive?

How will my desktop software work with laptops that have bluetooth smart already on board?

I prefer java but any information would be helpful. Thank you!

[Hung Bui]

@Hurley: there are a few options:

• If your customer has PC runs windows 8.x (not RT version) and has Bluetooth supported. You can create a software on the PC and use the native BLE API provided by windows. Please have a look here. HRS example is provided by Microsoft.

• If you plan to support other PC running Windows 7 for example, you would need a dongle. It could be any BLE dongle from third party vendor. But you would need to have the API support from the vendors. You can use our dongle. But we don't sell the dongle as mass product, but as development kit. The reference design with schematic and layout is available on our website.

With the Nordic dongle, you can either develop your application based on our Master Emulator API, or BLE driver API. They are both based on S120 stack.

[vineeshvs]

Dear Hung Bui,

1. Will each dongle have separate API? Or can I use a generic (any BLE 4 compatible) USB dongle for my application?
2. I am planning to use the dongle available in www.amazon.com/.../B00VWEK4IG . Will that suffice?

Thanks