Bluetooth
This page is under heavy construction, currently holds unassorted developer notes, and needs more consideration and cleanup before it will be useful.
Some test and measurement devices communicate via Bluetooth instead of RS232, USB or TCP.
Bluetooth Classic
Bluetooth Classic provides a standard way for traditional serial communication, which a sigrok suported platform can make available like any other (RS232 or USB based) COM port. Depending on the platform some external utility may be required to setup these virtual COM ports before native sigrok drivers can access them.
TODO Outline how to setup the COM port (potentially depending on the platform). Provide examples of sigrok drivers using these COM ports.
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
BLE has no common concept of traditional serial communication, which results in BLE supporting devices to have to (re-)invent their individual way of communicating to PC/mobile side software. Thus each involved sigrok driver will need specific support code to communicate to BLE attached devices. An alternative can be the use of external helpers which relay BLE communication to some form that is already supported by involved sigrok drivers (like: COM port, TCP socket).
List of devices
Natively supported devices:
- TODO (currently empty)
Supported by external helpers:
- EEVBlog 121GW, can use the eev121gw-ble-uart-relay BLE to UART gateway
- TODO Will native support within libsigrok materialize? What's the syntax to use it? is
:conn=ble/121gw/BDADDRa viable approach?