Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) support

[Sebnor31]

The current bluetooth VIs (as of LV 2014) don't support communication with the new protocol Bluetooth 4.0, referred as Bluetooth Low Energy (or Bluetooth Smart).

New VIs dedicated to BLE or adding support on current VIs is needed for all developers of this new bluetooth stack.

[Alteschwed]

Maybe this helps for Windows 7 Users.

https://www.adafruit.com/product/2267

[rCassani]

Hello,

There is this LabVIEW BLE toolkit. It uses the BLED112 dongle and Bluegiga API to have communicate LabVIEW with BLE devices.

Best,

Raymundo

[frax84]

Hi Raymundo,

thank you very much for this really interesting update. I'm going to check if this fits my needings!

Frax

[LeoVGL93]

Hi, I'm actually developing an application on LabVIEW using BLE and I'm using the Bluegiga dongle, somebody can help me telling me how can I read a response from a Handle using the BLE API?, please

[rCassani]

Hi LeoVGL93:

In the LabVIEW BLE Toolkit there are examples that show how to send and receive data from Handles. Once you install the toolbox, check the example 'ble_read_hr_monitor.vi', located in
C:\Program Files (x86)\National Instruments\LabVIEW 2013\examples\BLE\examples
(This is the path in my PC, yours should be similar)
 
Best,
Raymundo

[teknikal2]

It is my understanding that Labview 2019 still does not have built-in BLE functions/support.

It seems the only available options are to use a BLE dongle such as the Bluegiga device or make calls to the Microsoft BLE dlls.  I don't consider using a 3rd party dongle an option and figuring out how to use Microsoft's BLE dlls seems daunting.

I am a EE, and our company is dramatically ramping up the number of "connected" devices, which are either confingured via bluetooth or connected through wifi to a cloud service.  During R&D of these products, I could be more productive if I could prototype the host communication to these BLE peripherals.

I'm currently using Labview 2014, and waiting for BLE support to upgrade...