Bluetooth Low Energy Semi Conductor Application Development for Windows?

[Cameron]

Hi All,

I was tasked to create a program in visual studio that can just detect the 949-NRF51822-BEACON Using the 949-NRF51-DONGLE. A simple application that detects the beacon and detects whether it is on or off. However, after looking everywhere, I can find any guide or way to do that. Heck, I cant even find a simple guide to connect the beacon to the dongle through the nRFG studio. Can anyone assist me in doing this? Or at least explain how it all works?

Cameron

[Hung Bui]

Hi Cameron,

Correct me if I am wrong. My understanding is that you want to use the PC running on Windows to work as the central device and can do scanning and may be create connection to peripheral device such as the beacons.

You can try the Master Control Panel (MCP) tool that we provided here at the download tab.

An video guide is provided here.

We also provide dlls library and example so that you can build your own application on C#.

Second alternative is the BLE driver, where you can flash the dongle with S130 and control it via UART from PC. BLE driver is also provided in the link above.

Finally, if you use Windows 8, and your compute has BLE hardware, then you can use the native BLE API provided natively on Windows 8. Documentation is here. And an example provided here.