BLE Terminal

edodm85

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About this app

BLE Terminal FREE is a terminal App which provides a bluetooth BLE communication.
In the last update (v1.3.0) I added serial communication with Microchip BLE (MLDP) and Ublox BLE (I saw some connection problems with android Lollipop and lower).

The data are transmited/received between the phone and a bluetooth BLE paired device.

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

v1.7.0
- Removed the MSB bit from ASCII byte received

v1.6.9
- Internal Fix

v1.6.4
- Fixed "open logs folder" button
- Internal Fix

v1.5.8
- Removed null byte from ASCII trasmission
- Added NULL option into "Tx line break" settings
- Added "Tx line break" for hex trasmission
- Added the possible to separately select ASCII/HEX format for tx/rx transmissions ("SPLIT" option into "Send/Receive format")