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

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

Hung Bui — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 09:30:45 GMT

@Vineeshvs: You would need to contact the vendor of the USB dongle. On Windows 7 I don't think there is a common Bluetooth Low Energy APIs for all dongle.

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

vineeshvs — Sun, 11 Oct 2015 09:39:59 GMT

Dear Hung Bui,

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

Thanks

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

Hung Bui — Tue, 23 Jun 2015 13:16:56 GMT

@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.