If you are experiencing connection issues, check if the UART settings are correct.
The UART settings are fixed as the following:
When using a BLE app to scan for the Serial Server application you must enable the “notification flag” to receive the data from the module.
The LM930/ LM931 Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) module makes it incredibly easy and cost effective to design your wireless product. The LM930/ LM931 communicates with a phone, tablet or embedded system with the LM961 over a BLE connection. Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) is a light-weight version of the Bluetooth Classic ideal for the developer to create small applications.
The lower level protocol firmware of the Bluetooth v4.1 stack is stored in the ROM. Your unique application firmware communicates with the stack with APIs. This application firmware is programmed and debugged within the CSR μEnergy SDK provided with the LM53X development kit. Your application is then flashed over SPI to the EEPROM. GAP is used to establish Bluetooth Low Energy connections, while GATT defines how the data is organised and sent bidirectional between the LM930/ LM931 and another BLE device.
The Generic Access Profile is part of the CSR Bluetooth v4.1 stack used for controlling the connection between your product with the LM930/ LM931 and another BLE device.
In a Bluetooth Low Energy point to point connection there are two roles:
LM930/ LM931 advertises (broadcasts) its presence to all the GAP Central devices within range. It advertises with 31 byte advertising payloads which can state a predefined device name. The GAP Central device sends scan response payloads the same as the advertising payload sent by the peripheral. The advertising payloads are sent in intervals within a window of time defined by the developer in the CSR μEnergy SDK. The shorter the interval and window set in milliseconds the more responsive the advertising will be. However, there is a trade-off between the responsiveness and the battery life when using a small battery to power your application. Once the LM930/ LM931 has made a connection with a GAP Central device it will stop advertising it’s presence to other central devices. It will only transmit advertising payloads again when the connection has dropped. The BLE connection between the LM930/ LM931 and the central device allows GATT services to transfer data in both directions.
In a Bluetooth Low Energy network the GAP Central device can connect to up to 7 GAP Peripheral devices. Data can be sent over these 7 connection simultaneously, only restricted by the processing power and memory size of the GAP central device.
The LM930/ LM931 forms a connections with one GAP Central device at a time and can communicate with another peripheral device through the connected central device.
The LM930/ LM931 GAP Peripheral module is able to send data to more than one device as a broadcast. The data is sent one way to any GAP Central device in range as a 31 byte advertising packet. Our iBeacon firmware is available on the LM930/ LM931 for sending the broadcast messages.
The CSR μEnergy SDK is used to develop GATT Services. GATT Service firmware operates on the LM930/ LM931 once GAP has established the connection. Within the firmware you can define the way the LM930/ LM931 transfer data to the connected GAP Central device and vice versa. The data is transferred in a client/ server architecture, where the LM930/ LM931 is the server and the connected GAP central device is the client. The LM930/ LM931 is responsible for responding to all the requests of the client.
In development one or more services are implemented within your application to execute the required behaviour. For example the key fob demo application consists of a Battery Service, Device Information service and a customised Automation IO service for the switches and RGB LED functionality. With the LM930/ LM931 you can use and modify existing services and create new ones. All services are stored in the Attribute (ATT) protocol lookup table using a UUID. The service contain characteristics used to define the procedures and formats of the services.
This user guide explains how to flash LM demo applications on the Windows command line to the EEPROM of a LM930/ LM931 (using the LM53X development kit).
All demo applications provided by LM are compiled and the resulting image is ready to be flashed into the LM93X module EEPROM memory. This is interfaced with the MCU through the I2C bus.
Execute the following steps to flash the demo application image to the LM93X memory using the command line, without opening the IDE program:
1/ Download the required LM demo application zip provided e.g. LM93X_SOFT_IBEACON_V1.1. (This includes the source files (.c, .h etc.), the SDK project files and the EEPROM image (.img).
2/ Check that the demo image is present in the demo application folder, for example: LM93X_iBeacon_v1.1\eeprom_image\LM93X_iBeacon_v1.1.img
And copy the image to your development folder.
3/ Open a windows terminal and then change the directory to the uEnergy SDK folder path such as the following:
C:\CSR_uEnergy_SDK-2.4.5.13\tools\bin
4/ Run the following command:
e2cmd.exe download [demo_application_folder_path]\image_filename.img
for example:
e2cmd.exe download C:\Users\Marco\Documents\Projects\Images\LM93X_iBeacon_v1.1.img
An output displayed below should appear:
5/ In order to verify the download run the following command:
e2cmd.exe verify [demo_application_folder_path]\image_filename.img
for example:
e2cmd.exe verify C:\Users\Marco\Documents\Projects\Images\LM93X_iBeacon_v1.1.img
An output displayed below should appear:
Note 1: step 5 is not mandatory.
Note 2: for information about the e2cmd.exe command run e2cmd.exe –help.
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