DAY #8 – Building a PC program to speak BLE

I have to start somewhere writing code.  There is a stock piece of code from Nordic that claims to use a BLE library, plus a dongle to emit advertising packets from a PC.

The code is pretty simple, and the library is a DLL.  I have to arrange that the DLL ends up in the same directory as the executable before the program runs, but every time I clean the code it get’s deleted.  Then the program is simply silent.  It took a while to figure that bit out.

So far I seem to have managed to compile the code and get it to start the DLL.  It runs but doesn’t do anything.

If I run the code from a command line I get a bit more information than the zero I get from within Eclipse.

The dongle is actually on COM7.  Small code change.  Seems a bit better, but now what?

I think the Nordic dongle has to be programmed with some alternative code.  I have not found instructions to that effect yet.  Need to poke around.  Also, presumably the dongle needs to have the right sort of soft machine installed.

I have not found any help yet, but I notice that there are three hex files packaged with the C code.