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adafruit / adafruit-bluefruit-le-desktop

Desktop application to interact with Bluefruit LE and other Bluetooth low energy devices on Mac OSX, Windows, and Linux.
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Handle no BLE adapter exception on windows #7

Open tdicola opened 9 years ago

tdicola commented 9 years ago

Noble throws an error when no BLE adapter is present on windows. Catch this and display the loading error page.

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d3drturner commented 8 years ago

I get this error on windows 10 yet it claims to be connected image

swstack commented 8 years ago

@d3drturner did you install WinUSB drivers using the Zadig tool?

d3drturner commented 8 years ago

No, I installed the driver from here: https://www.adafruit.com/product/2661 called PJRC CDC serial. Not sure why I'd need another driver. I can connect fine with arduino gui and VS 2015.

tdicola commented 8 years ago

Yeah you need to also install a libusb driver using Zadig tool, check out the steps here: https://github.com/adafruit/adafruit-bluefruit-le-desktop#windows The issue is the noble library works around the spotty BLE support in Windows (mostly for older versions like Win 7) by talking directly to a USB BLE adapter. In order to talk to the USB BLE adapter at a low level it has to be setup to use the libusb driver though, so make sure you're using the CSR8510 dongle and have used Zadig tool to assign it a libusb driver. It's kind of a weird setup but only has to be done once for that device. Thanks!