ZephyrH4HciTransport

Overview

This package provides a raw Ble HCI Controller which can be accessed using a H4 UART connection which will be routed via the zephyr_console. Hosts might be e.g. BlueZ. This code was based on the zephyr _bluetooth-hci-uart-sample

Supported Ble features

• BLE Central
• Extended Advertisement Support (BLE 5.X)

Compatible devices

• nRF52840 dongle

Installation for Nordic

• Install and open the nRF Connect Programmer which is part of the nRF Connect for Desktop app

• Download the zephyr.hex from the latest release

• Flash the Nordic device by following this guide

• Configure the connection of the Host

  • Baudrate: 1Mbit/s
  • 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit
  • Hardware Flow Control (RTS/CTS) enabled

• Connect via USB: You can find the dongle with the default vendorId and 0x0004 as productId

Building from Source

• Install the nRF Connect SDK stack following the offical documentation
• Use west build --build-dir build . --board nrf52840dongle_nrf52840 to build for e.g. the nRF52840 dongle