Connecting with Bluez on Ubuntu to nRF51822 UART BLE example

[Jay]

Hello everyone,

I am trying to send and receive strings from Ubuntu (with a BLE USB dongle) to/from the nRF51822 with UART BLE SDK v9 example (i.e using ble_nus_string_send(...) and nus_data_handler(...)).

My setup is the following: Server = nRF51822 with UART BLE example from SDK v9 Client = Ubuntu with Bluez v5.33 and USB Bluetooth SMART READY dongle

Both the server and the client works fine and I am able to transmit/receive data on my phone using the Android UART v2 app with the nRF51822. But, I was wondering how I can use Bluez to do the same thing as the Android app and utilize the Bluez libraries (or the gatttool).

Thank you.

[FormerMember]

Yes, it is possible with gatttool.

gatttool --help-all

With this you can know all the commands to use this tool. The interactive mode is also quite nice. Don't forget to configure that address is of random type (if it is).

hcitool is also nice tool.