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Chrome under Ubuntu 19.10 does #1

Closed baqwas closed 4 years ago

baqwas commented 4 years ago

Hello,

At the suggestion of @sandeepmistry I am transferring this issue to this site. The Nano 33 BLE Sense board is working with basic sensor test exercises (via BLE) with the Ubuntu 19.10 desktop client Arduino IDE. Unfortunately, the demo posted earlier this week does not work with a fresh install of Chrome as described below:

My steps are:

arduino.github.io says
Error: This browser doesn't support Web Bluetooth. Try using Chrome.
OK.

I receive the same error when building using the Arduino Cloud IDE.

Please provide some suggestion on correcting my mistake with any recommended workaround. I am a beginner in these matters. I can post or redirect this inquiry elsewhere upon suggestion.

Kind regards.

ajosephau commented 4 years ago

Hope you don't mind the suggestion... but is the Chrome flag for Web Bluetooth enabled?

The setting is available at: chrome://flags/#enable-experimental-web-platform-features , and information about this feature is available at: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/07/interact-with-ble-devices-on-the-web .

baqwas commented 4 years ago

@ajosephau Thx for the suggestion. I duly visited the link you provided. WOW! It was like entering another dimension (or cavern) with so many things to enable/disable. I didn't find any reference to

"Chrome flag for Web Bluetooth"

during several up/down cursory scrolling on the page. I will continue to look more finely into the settings because you have pointed out a potential setting in my default environment. Many thanks for your suggestion; I now have some work to do at my end to ensure that I set Chrome properly to receive the BLE messages.

I would like to keep the issue open for at least one more iteration while I work on setting Chrome correctly at my end. I can then hopefully report on the steps that I performed to set the handshake correctly.

Kind regards.

baqwas commented 4 years ago

@ajosephau OK, operator error on my part, sorry! (Not a Chrome person is my poor defence)

Thanks to your guidance found three settings that I enabled:

Will worry about which specific one did the trick later. The dashboard is now receiving messages! Many thanks, again.

Kind regards.