プロジェクト番号020: UART to Bluetooth Low Energy Bridge

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プロジェクト番号020: UART to Bluetooth Low Energy Bridge

2015年3月13日

By Pushek Madaan

In today's project, we demonstrate a custom Profile to implement a UART-BLE bridge using the BLE Pioneer Kit.

When Bluetooth (classic) was released, it featured a Profile called SPP (Serial Port Profile) that allowed for easy cord-cutter designs that wanted to replace typical USB products with Bluetooth classic interfaces instead. With Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), no such standard Profile for serial ports is provided by the Bluetooth SIG. This is primarily due to the fact that Bluetooth Low Energy was not designed for high data-rate applications, and instead focuses on low-power sensor node applications. BLE's GATT Adopted Profiles are more application-centric, with Profiles for Heart Rate Monitors, Phone Notifcations, etc.

In this project, we implement a custom Profile to create a Bluetooth Low Energy to UART bridge, enabling the ease-of-use of the UART protocol, albeit not being a very sophisticated choice of design for Bluetooth Low Energy applications. However, engineers realize the usefulness of a quick-and-dirty solution for Bluetooth Low Energy over UART, which is useful for quick prototyping or adding Bluetooth Low Energy to replace legacy Bluetooth classic designs.

The Bluetooth Low Energy Pioneer Kit with the PSoC 4 BLE module implements a Bluetooth Low Energy GAP Central device running a custom Profile and a custom UART Service. This Profile contains two custom Characteristics - one called Receive Characteristic and another called Transmit Characteristic. The Transmit Characteristic supports Notifications.

For the other end of the Bluetooth Low Energy communication, we will re-program the CySmart USB Dongle with a project implementing a GAP Peripheral. This project also implements the same custom Profile, Services and Characteristics.

Each device can be interfaced over UART using a serial terminal utility like TeraTerm or Putty to transmit/receive a byte or an entire data file.

You can download this PSoC Creator project along with a detailed PDF of instructions, here from GitHub: https://github.com/cypresssemiconductorco/PSoC-4-BLE/tree/master/100_Projects_in_100_Days/Day020_BLE_UART

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Submitted by fernnando28 on Fri, 11/20/2015 - 04:00

I wonder what would have to change in the code-BLE UART to measure with ADC and send the data right through UART-BLE

Submitted by david.stamper_1542706 on Tue, 01/05/2016 - 15:11

have you been able to figure that out fernnando?

Submitted by maurizio.brignoli_1571561 on Mon, 02/08/2016 - 10:53

I test it with PSoC creator 3.3.
It is not clear from documentation somethings... how to proceed .

1) Use PRoC module and not PSoC to program the UART_to_BLE_Central project.

2) Use PSoC for USART_to_BLE_peripheral

3) change the chip target into project UART_to_BLE_central

4) use hex file generate from PSoC Creator to program the BLE dongle

Finally after few adjustment it works!!

I have a 11,68 Kbytes/s during transfert file.

Unfortunatly this is a best condition between two module, and not real test with smartphone IoS or Android.

Submitted by tasos bablas on Tue, 09/26/2017 - 00:08

Hi Maurizio, could you plz share the "few adjustments" that you mentioned. I can't make BLE dongle (as a central) print anything in terraterm using your instructions in this app note. Thank you!

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Submitted by mdenzin_1673916 on Mon, 06/20/2016 - 13:27

I have a CY8CKIT-042-BLE Pioneer kit and am trying to get the UART example project #020 working.

It does not work when using the files provided from GitHub. Is there some kind of update or some other way to get this example working? The blue LED on the Pioneer kit flashes blue which is supposed to indicate a connection between it and the dongle, but no data can be sent through the terminal programs I have opened.

Submitted by ryan.konen_2538026 on Wed, 07/12/2017 - 09:06

same issue here

Submitted by sean_2678131 on Mon, 10/23/2017 - 12:16

For those having UART connectivity issues make sure the KITPROG has the latest firmware: https://community.cypress.com/docs/DOC-10245

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