How to establish a communication with PCA10028 (programmed without ble-nus) through an Adafruit BLEfruit LE friend USB dongle?

[BCI]

Hi everyone,

I would like to know if it is possible to establish a serial communication to a PCA10028 card using Adafruit Bluefruilt LE friend knowing that there is no ble-nus programmed in the DK and I may note rewrite it. If I use a nRF51 dongle, I need to add ble-nus on the DK. So I am looking for another solution. For now, what I can see is that there is no communication. I can't advertise from the DK. So when I visualize packets exchange on Wireshark, there is no packet.

I am new in this domain, do not hesitate to ask questions if it is not clear.

Thank you,

BCI

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi,

Is this the board you are using? What do you mean by "there is no ble-nus programmed in the DK"? Are you able to connect to the BlueFruit LE Friend board using the iOS/Android apps, as described on the Adafruit page?

It looks like the board use the Nordic UART Service (NUS), meaning you should be able to connect to it using the Nordic UART Service Client example running on your nRF51 Dongle.

Best regards,

Jørgen

[BCI]

Hi,

Thank you for your answer. Yes, I am using this board. I can connect with Android Apps (I tried that). We found the problem (I consulted the team who uses the same programmed card). I did not activate the notification in the attribute in the PCA10028 card. Now, I can see packets in the nRF connect window.

Thank you,

BCI

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Grat that you figured it out, and thank you for reporting back the solution!