Bluefruit LE UART Friend & GPS NMEA Data

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Bluefruit LE UART Friend & GPS NMEA Data

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Hello everyone,

I have a Bluefruit LE UART Friend and I am trying to pair it with my Android device to receive the NMEA data from the on-board GPS. The Android would output the data using an app (i.e. GPS over BT, GPS NMEA Bluetooth, Bluetooth GPS Outpu, etc.) and then the UART Friend would send it via Serial to an Arduino.

I can get the UART Friend to pair with the Adafruit Bluefruit LE app, but nothing else. My device sees the UART Friend and attempts to pair with it, but never actually connects. Can anyone help me with this issue? Has anyone seen this issue before?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

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Re: Bluefruit LE UART Friend & GPS NMEA Data

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Bluetooth LE is different from 'classic' bluetooth. There is no pairing. And it won't work with 'classic' bluetooth apps. You will probably have to write your own app, unless you can find a specific BLE app that does what you want.

Your alternative is to use a Bluefruit EZ-Link instead, which is classic bluetooth.

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Re: Bluefruit LE UART Friend & GPS NMEA Data

Post by mag_mhs01 »

That makes sense. I will work on a Bluetooth LE App.

Thank you for the help adafruit_support_rick.

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