Enable BLE on PC

RE: Enable BLE on PC

brianreinhold — Wed, 25 Sep 2019 09:01:17 GMT

After all this is said an done it is not clear if the program I write is running on the PC or running on the board. Downloading the HEX file sounds like it is running on the board. It sounds like what the user wants is to run on the PC. I know that is what I am looking for.

RE: Enable BLE on PC

Øyvind Karlsen — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 13:49:38 GMT

The library I linked to only supports those two devices.

You can have a look at some other libraries, for Linux there is BlueZ, for OSX there's this. I have not found a different library that will support Windows 7 and previous.

As for FCC and CE certification, all dongles on the market should have this, as it is a requirement to be allowed to sell them as a Bluetooth product.

RE: Enable BLE on PC

gaminn — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 11:28:34 GMT

I haven't mentioned it in my first post - I'm looking for certified USB dongle which is already available on the market. We will supply this dongle together with our product to customers who want use our BLE device on the PC.

RE: Enable BLE on PC

Øyvind Karlsen — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 11:03:36 GMT

From the documentation:

The Driver supports the following boards:

pca10028: nRF51422 development kit (v1.0 or higher)
pca10031: nRF51422 development dongle (v1.0 or higher)
In order for the Driver to operate, a supported board from the list above must be connected to the PC.

The necessary firmware to use this driver can be programmed by just copying connectivity_1M_with_s130_1.0.0.hex file onto the drive your board shows up as. The file contains both the connectivity firmware and SoftDevice.

On Windows you can also use nRFgo Studio or nrfjprog to program the HEX files.

If you wish to compile the connectivity firmware yourself, you can do that. The SoftDevice and connectivity firmware source code is available in the nRF51 SDK (separate download).

RE: Enable BLE on PC

gaminn — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 10:44:16 GMT

Thanks. I will go through the library. Are there FCC and CE certified USB dongles compatible with this library on the market?

RE: Enable BLE on PC

Øyvind Karlsen — Tue, 21 Jul 2015 10:37:43 GMT

Hi,

Have a look at the pc-ble-driver library.

I recommend using the nRF51-Dongle for development, as it offers a lot of additional features(sniffer, MCP), compared to a regular dongle.

Best regards,

Øyvind