winnus

winnus

Windows NUS BLE (winnus) gives access to the Nordic Semiconductor Bluetooth Low Energy UART Service for Node.js on Windows, using Windows BLE APIs (Windows 8.1 and above).

Created for Espruino and Puck.js.

Usage

var winnus = require("winnus");

var device = winnus.getDevices()[0];
winnus.connect(device, function(data) {
  console.log("Got data "+JSON.stringify(data));
});
winnus.write("Hello\r");
setTimeout(function() {
  winnus.disconnect();
}, 1000);

Development

Please start with:

• Puck.js, a Nordic Semiconductor Bluetooth Low Energy device.
• Visual C++ 2015 Build Tools
• Python 2.7:
• git
• node

Clone this repository, then use the simple node example as a start.

Sucess is indicated by finding an advertisement and getting data, for example:

winnus\examples\hellowinnusnode>node hellowinnus.js
[ { name: 'Puck.js 431b',
    address: 'df:f5:a5:ec:43:1b',
    path: '\\\\?\\bthledevice#{6e400001-b5a3-f393-e0a9-e50e24dcca9e}_dff5a5ec431b#8&17558516&0&000b#{6e400001-b5a3-f393-e0a9-e50e24dcca9e}' } ]
{ name: 'Puck.js 431b',
  address: 'df:f5:a5:ec:43:1b',
  path: '\\\\?\\bthledevice#{6e400001-b5a3-f393-e0a9-e50e24dcca9e}_dff5a5ec431b#8&17558516&0&000b#{6e400001-b5a3-f393-e0a9-e50e24dcca9e}' }
Connect
Got data "Hello\r\nUncaught Refe"