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Microcontrollers that support BLE are getting so cheap this really is becoming an option. Hopefully with some button that activates it.
by russdill 5mo ago
Microcontrollers that support BLE are getting so cheap this really is becoming an option. Hopefully with some button that activates it.
- markrages 5mo agoRFCOMM is old Bluetooth, not BLE. Nordic has a serial-over-ble profile, but it is not standard like RFCOMM.
- eqvinox 5mo agoIndeed… a fact making me really sad about BLE :(. The Nordic profile might become widespread enough to become de-facto standard, but AFAIK isn't quite widespread enough yet, i.e. people are still homebrewing almost the same thing(?)
- russdill 5mo agoI mean, sure there are still rough edges, but it's not like rs232 over Juliet is some widely supported standard. There are Android apps that support serial over ble
- dzhiurgis 5mo agoHome Assistant and it’s relative esphome just added serial-proxy support. Basically you can use any esp32 board to add smart capabilities for old devices via serial port.