How to connect to a Windows 8 PC

[Andreas]

Hello,

I`ve got a working S120 peripheral BLE device with custom services and characteristics. I am able to connect and bond with iOS and Android. But I cannot connect to Windows7 / Windows8. The device will not be visible in the windows device API. I did some research with some other BLE devices (custom raspberryPI as BLE device). There I get a working connection by the windows device API.

I found this other DevZone topic regarding Windows8 connection: link text

But when I change the

m_sec_params.kdist_periph.enc = 1; m_sec_params.kdist_periph.id = 1; m_sec_params.kdist_periph.sign = 0;

parameters as suggested, I can not bond my device to Android or iOS any more...!? Do you guys have any idea? Where is my mistake?

Regards, BTprogrammer

[ImQ009]

Can you see the device advertising on Windows at all? Is it just so that you can't pair with it? If so I had the same problem. Implementing a device manager helped. There's an example showing how it's done.

[Andreas]

Hi, yes I can see the device advertising in Windows. If I then try to connect, this is not possible faultless. Do i have to implement a device manager on the windows side or on the device side? Can you me the name of the example / Link / reference?

[ImQ009]

You have to implement it on the device. One of the examples that implements that is ble_peripheral/ble_app_hrs

[Andreas]

Ok, thank you. But I think there is another problem. I can not use the device manager module with the S120 softdevice I think... The Keil module manager says "deny S120"...

[ImQ009]

Oh? I don't have any experience with S120, I guess you're gonna have to wait until someone else comes in here.

[Øyvind Karlsen]

Are you using device_manager_central.c? If your are using device_manager_peripheral.c it will not work with S120.