New Bluetooth Smart tool from Nordic

RE: New Bluetooth Smart tool from Nordic

wlgrd — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 21:29:44 GMT

@gap Did you figure it out?

RE: New Bluetooth Smart tool from Nordic

gap — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 16:23:29 GMT

Hi, some beginner's problems getting it to work on OS X 10.10 here:

Select Com Port button lists available ports, but does not select them i.e. clicking on a port in the list returns the button to displaying "Select com port"; status light is always grey
Discovered devices, Start Scan button is always disabled, so cannot start a scan

Do I need to install pc-ble-driver or anything from electron separately to get it to work?

RE: New Bluetooth Smart tool from Nordic

Henrik M. — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 12:16:35 GMT

This is REALLY great! It works like a charm on my Mac w/OSX 10.11, using a PCA10031 dongle! :) Super helpful for debugging/analyzing/learning.

Look forward to more cross platform tools/utilities from you!

RE: New Bluetooth Smart tool from Nordic

Reidar Martin Svendsen — Wed, 14 Oct 2015 07:32:16 GMT

@Masahiro: I guess you are aware of MCP for Android. If not, check out this page for an overview of our mobile apps: www.nordicsemi.com/.../nRFready-Demo-Apps

RE: New Bluetooth Smart tool from Nordic

Bjørn Inge — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:20:24 GMT

@Masahiro: We have no immediate plans to support mobile platforms with this application, it is desktop only.

RE: New Bluetooth Smart tool from Nordic

Bjørn Inge — Tue, 13 Oct 2015 12:17:08 GMT

@Jim Dattolo: We chose to include only 115K2 in this release since that it is the highest baud rate that is supported by all three platforms (OSX does not support using 1M). If you want to use the 1M firmware from pc-ble-driver v0.5.0 with Yggdrasil, you can do so by updating the baud rate number in this file: (application folder)\resources\app\js\stores\driverStore.js.

RE: New Bluetooth Smart tool from Nordic

Masahiro Kondo — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 20:43:31 GMT

I guess this to replace MCP eventually. Is it going to support Android and iOS devices?

RE: New Bluetooth Smart tool from Nordic

Jim Dattolo — Mon, 12 Oct 2015 17:54:06 GMT

I see that you are using the 115k2 version of the S130 firmware. I have been using the 1M version for a tool I have been writing. Is there some reason that you are using the 115K2 code over the 1M one? It would be great to not have to keep reprogramming back and forth.

RE: New Bluetooth Smart tool from Nordic

Bjørn Inge — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 10:21:14 GMT

@Tony Lee: This release does not support write operations but it will be added in a coming release. See the "Features" sections in the article for an overview of what's supported and what's planned.

RE: New Bluetooth Smart tool from Nordic

Tony Lee — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 02:59:00 GMT

How can I enable the CCCD, it seems no button?

RE: New Bluetooth Smart tool from Nordic

Bjørn Inge — Thu, 01 Oct 2015 06:45:56 GMT

Currently you will need a pca10031 dongle or a pca10028 devkit. nRF52 support will be added later.

RE: New Bluetooth Smart tool from Nordic

JohnBrown — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 13:30:07 GMT

I see. So that means that I need to buy a complete new dev kit if I want to use this? There appears to be no dongle in the nRF52 "preview" kit I bought a while back..

RE: New Bluetooth Smart tool from Nordic

Bjørn Inge — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 11:11:33 GMT

@JohnBrown: The firmware is not directly compatible with pca10000. It is possible to download the connectivity firmware project from SDK and follow the pc_ble_driver readme, though building for pca10000 is not something we actively support at this point.

RE: New Bluetooth Smart tool from Nordic

JohnBrown — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 07:52:21 GMT

So will it not work with the PCA 10000 dongle?

RE: New Bluetooth Smart tool from Nordic

follower — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 23:36:37 GMT

Want to express my support for your work on this, particularly:

cross-platform OS support
eventual open license (please choose one of the main existing ones and not create your own license)
your choice of a more easily updated programming language/framework

A great start.

(I downloaded and tested on Mac OS X 10.8.5 which opened the application successfully. Haven't yet tried to interact with hardware though.)