Does anyone know an OSX program to send data to a BLE (bluetooth 4.0) device (RFduino). Ideally I’d like to use it as a serialport in Processing. Until now I only found that the Beanloader for the Lightblue Bean supports this virtual serialport feature (and only in OSX).
I tried to use a customUUID so the loader program thinks that my RFduino is a Bean. I can let it show up in the interface, but I can’t connect.
Another option is of course the make a quick app for testing (which is of course the final goal. Evothings seems to be a nice tool for that: https://evothings.com
Evothings looks very interesting. I’m curious what other suggestions folks have. I take it there’s no virtual serial port (tty or cu) that shows up under /dev when you’re connected?
No, I assumed that something like that would be possible. BLE is really different from normal Bluetooth: https://github.com/tigoe/BLEDocs/wiki/Introduction-to-Bluetooth-LE
The Beanloader seems to be the only program on OSX supports that implemented a virtual port, but you have to activate it by right clicking after you have a connection.
Oh right… BLE. Sorry, my bad.
I’m playing with the DFRobot Bluno Beetle https://www.dfrobot.com/wiki/index.php?title=Bluno_Beetle_SKU:DFR0339 a bit these days, but I’m only just now starting to dig into the various connectivity options. I’m a n00b here, but as I said, very interested in learning, so I’ll be curious to see what folks say.
Yeah - BLE far prefers to communicate things in small chunks (your packets can only do 22 bytes of data and there are limits/restrictions on how often you can send them)