BLE Terminal

edodm85

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About this app

"BLE Terminal FREE" is a Bluetooth client where you can send and receive data via Bluetooth BLE using the GATT profile or "serial".
The "serial" profile can only be used if the Bluetooth device supports it.

With this App is possible save the log sessions to a file.


NB: This App work only with devices with BLUETOOTH LOW ENERGY (Ex: SimbleeBLE, Microchip, Ublox ...)


Instructions:
1) Enable bluetooth
2.1) Open the Search menu and Pair the device
or
2.2) Open the Settings menu and insert a MAC Address (with checkbox "Enabled MAC REMOTE" checked)
3) In the main windown press the "CONNECT" button
4) If Necessary add Service/Characteristics with the "SELECT SERVICE" button
5) Send and receive the messages

This App asks to enable this two services:
- Location service: is required for some devices (ex: my nexus 5) for the BLE searching function
- Storage service: is required if you want save the logs session


You can try example here:
- SimbleeBLE example: http://bit.ly/2wkCFiN
- RN4020 example: http://bit.ly/2o5hJIH


I tested this App with these devices:

Simblee: 0000fe84-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb
RFDUINO: 00002220-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB
RedBearLabs: 713D0000-503E-4C75-BA94-3148F18D941E
RN4020: custom characteristics



NB: For custom App contact me.
Please rate and review so I can make it better!

Ratings and reviews

This is the best all around BLE terminal app I've found. The only problem I've found is that it sends a null byte ('\0') at the end of each transmission regardless of the selected Tx line break. This isn't standard and if a device requires a null byte terminator, it should be an option in the settings. Other than that it would be nice if hex/ascii mode could be selected separately for input and output.

The version I tried seems to work for write and reading, but does not appear to handle receiving data through notify messages. As such, this is great for sending commands and responses; but not so good for having a "terminal session". It should be pretty useful for people developing BLE based projects where they want to send/receive commands with their own choice of UUID's, as the read and write's can be assigned to different UUID's. 3.5 stars for me because I need it for a termianl session - if I had a project which only used read and write, this would be 4 stars.

There is no option to send hex values , only text . 99% do not use that ..

What’s new

v1.8.1
- Fixed some internal bugs

v1.8.0
- Updated UI/graphics
- Added a dedicated view for JSON messages
- Revised message reception (improved message reception performance)

v1.7.2
- Updated Android SDK