Posts Tagged ‘Bluetooth’
Bluetooth GATT: How to Design Custom Services & Characteristics [MIDI device use case]
You’re probably aware that adding Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to your device is one of the best ways to achieve a great user experience for your IoT device. Why is that, you may ask? Well, because adding BLE allows your device to be connectable from a smartphone app. And we can all agree that smartphone…
Read MoreHow to use a Bluetooth (BLE) sniffer without pulling your hair out!
How to use a Bluetooth Low Energy sniffer without pulling your hair out! While working on a client project it became necessary to use a Bluetooth Low Energy sniffer to debug some weird behavior happening with the data transfers between the master and slave device. I had read quite a bit about BLE sniffing before and talked…
Read MoreThis one crucial feature is missing in Bluetooth 5
Bluetooth 5 Bluetooth has been around for almost 2 decades, and if you haven’t heard of Bluetooth then you’ve probably been living under a rock! 🙂 The last major version of Bluetooth (version 4.0) was released back in 2010. There have been major changes in the wireless and electronics industry since then -with the Internet of…
Read MoreThe basics of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE)
Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a low power wireless technology used for connecting devices with each other. BLE operates in the 2.4 GHz ISM (Industrial, Scientific, and Medical) band, and is targeted towards applications that need to consume less power and may need to run on batteries for longer periods of time—months, and even years. Bluetooth started as a short-distance…
Read More