EPISODE · May 27, 2021 · 2H 8M
Deep Dive w/Scott: BLE Debugging
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Join Scott today as he answers questions and debugs the BLE workflow code. Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com 0:00 Getting going and hellos 4:48 Housekeeping 11:05 bluetooth mesh 12:40 robotics start 14:22 wave file 15:17 atecc chip 17:25 CP target ~19:00 “Feature rich” question of board & chips Support matrix: https://circuitpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/shared-bindings/support_matrix.html How to choose a microcontroller: https://learn.adafruit.com/how-to-choose-a-microcontroller/overrview 23:02 does sleep go into low power 24:58 will there be interrupts in circuitpython? 26:45 BLE workflow Glider app for BLE workflow from mobile device Will be on iOS app store later (when ready) Open protocol for file transfer over BLE 35:00 Start covering BLE workflow 40:00 Disclose phone PIN on-stream 41:00 Advertising, devices, pairing and bonding 1:06:15 Kitty Interlude 1:31:36 Q: “What is the hardest board to get up and running?” 1:38:30 Q: “What do you think is the hardest sensor/module to interface with for beginners or advanced creators?” 1:40:10 Going back to this file sharing stuff - Between BLE and USB (?) What should happen if the device is already bonded over BLE, but then connect USB? Should we determine whether any file transfer has happened over BLE to determine if USB should connect read/write? 1:44:00 Q (summarized) “Could a proxy running on the device handle read/writes for BLE, USB and others?” Scott mentions GhostFS that we could do, that Microsoft did for UF2 ~1:54:00 Discussion about how to handle mounting the filesystem Read/Write vs. Read-Only when connecting a device over USB as Mass Storage 1:59:40 (T-2:00) “I think I can knock that out now” - talking about altering the way the filesystem behaves with USB connection 2:06:03 Wrap-up ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
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Join Scott today as he answers questions and debugs the BLE workflow code. Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com 0:00 Getting going and hellos 4:48 Housekeeping 11:05 bluetooth mesh 12:40 robotics start 14:22 wave file 15:17 atecc chip 17:25 CP target ~19:00 “Feature rich” question of board & chips Support matrix: https://circuitpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/shared-bindings/support_matrix.html How to choose a microcontroller: https://learn.adafruit.com/how-to-choose-a-microcontroller/overrview 23:02 does sleep go into low power 24:58 will there be interrupts in circuitpython? 26:45 BLE workflow Glider app for BLE workflow from mobile device Will be on iOS app store later (when ready) Open protocol for file transfer over BLE 35:00 Start covering BLE workflow 40:00 Disclose phone PIN on-stream 41:00 Advertising, devices, pairing and bonding 1:06:15 Kitty Interlude 1:31:36 Q: “What is the hardest board to get up and running?” 1:38:30 Q: “What do you think is the hardest sensor/module to interface with for beginners or advanced creators?” 1:40:10 Going back to this file sharing stuff - Between BLE and USB (?) What should happen if the device is already bonded over BLE, but then connect USB? Should we determine whether any file transfer has happened over BLE to determine if USB should connect read/write? 1:44:00 Q (summarized) “Could a proxy running on the device handle read/writes for BLE, USB and others?” Scott mentions GhostFS that we could do, that Microsoft did for UF2 ~1:54:00 Discussion about how to handle mounting the filesystem Read/Write vs. Read-Only when connecting a device over USB as Mass Storage 1:59:40 (T-2:00) “I think I can knock that out now” - talking about altering the way the filesystem behaves with USB connection 2:06:03 Wrap-up ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Adafruit on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adafruit Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------
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