Windows: How to distinguish BLE dongle from BLE dev board

RE: Windows: How to distinguish BLE dongle from BLE dev board

jpo38 — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:31:06 GMT

OK, I did not fully understand what "snr" meant in the other post. Now I got it and it works! Thanks a lot for your help!

RE: Windows: How to distinguish BLE dongle from BLE dev board

Carles — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:18:58 GMT

What do you mean? the registry contains both the Segger ID and the COM Port, that's how it matches a Segger ID with its COM port, see this line:

segger_entry_trimmed.StartsWith(snr))

RE: Windows: How to distinguish BLE dongle from BLE dev board

jpo38 — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:16:41 GMT

OK, but nrfjprog is most likely unavailable on the end user machine I'll deploy my application on....the only thing I can use is the registry...

RE: Windows: How to distinguish BLE dongle from BLE dev board

Carles — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:14:19 GMT

It's the first digits of the segger ID. So if you have:

$ nrfjprog -i
480208968
480112992

Then you match 4802 and 4801

RE: Windows: How to distinguish BLE dongle from BLE dev board

jpo38 — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:11:36 GMT

Does <SeggerRange snr="4801" type="USBDongle" /> mean dongle can be identified with id 4801? I could not find any key with value 4801 in my registry, what key should I look for?

RE: Windows: How to distinguish BLE dongle from BLE dev board

Carles — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:10:09 GMT

Sorry! this is a public file since it's placed in users' folders but I myself didn't know of its existence till today

RE: Windows: How to distinguish BLE dongle from BLE dev board

RK — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:08:44 GMT

I would have killed for that file when I wrote RKNRFGO!!!

RE: Windows: How to distinguish BLE dongle from BLE dev board

Carles — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:06:23 GMT

use the section to identify the type of card based on the Segger ID

RE: Windows: How to distinguish BLE dongle from BLE dev board

jpo38 — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 13:05:13 GMT

Found the file, but am not sure to understand how to use the information it contains...

RE: Windows: How to distinguish BLE dongle from BLE dev board

Carles — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 12:58:41 GMT

No, but you can take the info in that .xml file and place it in your program

RE: Windows: How to distinguish BLE dongle from BLE dev board

jpo38 — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 12:57:40 GMT

Is "nrfgo studio" always installed when you install the windows drivers? Because my application (trying to find and connect to the dongle) may be deployed on a machine where only the driver was installed (without any debugging/diagnosis tools)

RE: Windows: How to distinguish BLE dongle from BLE dev board

Carles — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 12:54:51 GMT

Look for the following file:

nrF51deviceids.xml

c:\users<user>\appdata\local\nordic semiconductor\nrfgo studio"

should have the information you need.

RE: Windows: How to distinguish BLE dongle from BLE dev board

jpo38 — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 12:40:13 GMT

Exactly ;-) I'd like something generic, plug any dongle, dev kit and it will find out who is who.

RE: Windows: How to distinguish BLE dongle from BLE dev board

Carles — Thu, 09 Jul 2015 12:37:06 GMT

And I assume having a table mapping Segger ID to type (dongle or devkit) inside your program is not good enough?