Direct nRF518 - windows PC / laptop communication tool for dummies?

[emmgergo]

Hi.

Is there a (lazy) (dummy) comfortable way to make an nRF518 chip (in my case, nRF51822) communicate with the built-in bluetooth adapter of a laptop with windows 7 or 8.1 (or 10)?

As far as I know, there is the nRF UART v2.0 software for mobile, of which I have found the java source code that I can edit. (Pretty awesome!) I would need something similar, e.g. a code for the PC side of the bluetooth communication with the nRF chip.

Since most laptops have built-in bluetooth modules, it could be done without a bluetooth dongle, I guess.

[awneil]

AIUI, there is no native BLE support in Win 7 - you need 8.1 or 10 for that.

The place to look for MS Windows-specific stuff like this is MSDN; eg,

msdn.microsoft.com/.../gatt-scenarios

[Anders Strand]

There are a couple of links posted here: stackoverflow.com/.../windows-8-bluetooth-low-energy-api-example