Is there a way to connect to my Nordic Thingy:91 using BLE?

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The Nordic Thingy:91 comes with Bluetooth, and for now most of my deployment will be in areas where I'll be able to connect to it via BLE. I can receive data from my Nordic Thingy:52 using Bluetooth, is there a way to do the same with the Thingy:91 using the default firmware?

[Albrecht Markus Schellenberger]

Hello,

I can receive data from my Nordic Thingy:52 using Bluetooth, is there a way to do the same with the Thingy:91 using the default firmware?

Yes, there is. But possibly not with the default firmware.

The Thingy:91 has a nRF52840 in addition to the nRF9160. The default objective of that SoC is to act as a Connectivity Bridge USB composite device for two UART interfaces. But it also includes a Bluetooth LE UART Service for UART_0.

The nRF52840 can be re-flashed with any other application, but it will lose its USB logging function by doing so. In that case it is required to switch over to RTT logging if still needed. 

Regards, 

Markus