RE: PC Application to get device name and RSSI

Martin Aeberhard — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 08:35:22 GMT

Hi Jørgen,

thanks for your answer. It looks like this is a possible way to get my problem solved.

Best regards

Martin

RE: PC Application to get device name and RSSI

Jørgen Holmefjord — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 15:29:22 GMT

Hi,

The best approach depends a bit on your requirements and which SDK you are planning to use.

We have the pc-ble-driver, which can be used to create C/C++ BLE applications (or Python/node.js through the available wrappers - unfortunately, there is no C# wrapper available). This is using the serialization solution from nRF5 SDK to control the BLE stack (Softdevice) over UART. This solution gives you full access to the softdevice API and allows you to control any BLE parameter like an on-chip application.

Another alternative if you want to use the more modern nRF Connect SDK is to write an application interacting with the Zephyr Bluetooth Shell application. You can then write your application to communicate with the board over UART to the command line, executing the required commands to start the BLE operations and get the desired information. You may have to add some additional commands to the shell to get all information you need, see the Shell documentation. The following commands should get you started:

bt init
bt scan on

There is also a similar example in nRF5 SDK: BLE Interactive Command Line Interface Example.

Best regards,
Jørgen