PC-BLE on RHEL 8.5

[A.P]

Hi!

We're working with a gateway comprised of a workstation running RHEL 8.5, a Bluetooth USB dongle with a nRF52840 chip running the connectivity_4.1.2_usb_with_s132_5.1.0 firmware. The gateway uses PC- BLE-DRIVER-JS to control the dongle and send/receive data.

Has anyone tried this before? Has anyone succeeded?

We're seeing repeating crashes of our process, and have yet to find the culprit for this.

Any help/ tips/ pointers to similar projects/ known issues or solutions would be appreciated.

Thanks!

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi,

Maybe you can post the crashes/issues you are experiencing? That way it will be easier to give recommendations or compare towards existing issues.

As far as I know, we do not test pc-ble-driver on RHEL, we use Ubuntu for testing the Linux variant.

Best regards,
Jørgen

[A.P]

Hi Jorgen!

As far as we can see, the PC-BLE-DRIVER-JS adapter.startscan() method simply does not return. No error is thrown, nothing is reported to our logs.

I previously said we see crashes, since we have a sort of 'watchdog' which forcefully closes the process after not being fed for T amount of time. We had tried up to 18 minutes on the watchdog time, and still, the method did not return.

There is nothing more I can give you I'm afraid. That is all we know for now.

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Can you try to increase the logLevel in adapter.open() to 'debug' or 'trace' and post the full log output here?

[A.P]

Yes. We're currently running on 'debug', and see no error. We've changed to 'trace' and will try to reproduce the issue.

I'll pass the info along to you as soon as I have something new

[A.P]

Another question in the meantime, if I may.

Would it be possible to ask Nordic to test the PC-BLE-DRIVER on Red Hat as well? We are willing to pay for this service, if needed. If this is relevant, please contact me directly.

Thank you!