RE: Access to old nRF Connect Desktop Bluetooth App

Dave_couling — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 19:46:34 GMT

yes these issues are seen in nRF Connect v3.9.1. I found v3.8 slightly more stable

Thank you very for the instructions. I reverted to v3.7 and everything works great.

Thanks for the support! :)

RE: Access to old nRF Connect Desktop Bluetooth App

Marte Myrvold — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 07:49:18 GMT

Hi,

Are you seeing this issue in the latest version of nRF Connect for Desktop (v3.9.1) as well? Our developers are aware that there has been issues with v3.8, and there should be fixes for this in v3.9.0 and v3.9.1. If you are still seeing this in the latest version I will report it to the developers.

These issues are not in v3.7, so a workaround is to download nRF Connect for Desktop v3.7 and apps compatible with that version:

Download the latest 3.7 version of nRF Connect for Desktop from https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Development-tools/nRF-Connect-for-desktop/Download?lang=en#infotabs (for macOS this is 3.7.2, for Windows and Linux 3.7.1, because 3.7.2 was not needed and not released for these).
After starting nRF Connect for Desktop 3.7 a prompt will come up about the 3.8 upgrade. Click “No” on this.
In the Settings, click on “Add source”, enter the URL http://developer.nordicsemi.com/.pc-tools/nrfconnect-apps/3.7-apps/apps.json and click “Add”.
Back in the list of all apps, all apps should show up twice now, one with “official” below them and one with “3.7 compatible apps” below them. If you want to hide the incompatible versions, click on “Filter” and deselect “Official”.
Install the apps you need in the old versions and use them.

Best regards,

Marte