I recently purchased a Circuit Playground Bluefruit to incorporate into a project I'm working on. I need the CPB to send sensor data over bluetooth to my MacBook Pro which is going to be interpreted by Max/MSP. I first wanted to get just the bluetooth working before adding any other code. I've been using the Arduino IDE for programming and connecting to the device through Bluefruit Connect and have been powering it with an external battery pack.
The issue is that although I can connect it to the Bluefruit Connect app with what seems like no issue I can't find the serial port it should be connecting to in the Terminal. To import the data into Max I have to be able to view its serial port connection. I've tried several example sketches (I'm providing one here) and none of them display a serial port when I use the command ls -l /dev/tty.*
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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#include <bluefruit.h>
#include <Adafruit_LittleFS.h>
#include <InternalFileSystem.h>
// BLE Service
BLEDfu bledfu; // OTA DFU service
BLEDis bledis; // device information
BLEUart bleuart; // uart over ble
BLEBas blebas; // battery
void setup() {
Serial.begin(115200);
#if CFG_DEBUG
// Blocking wait for connection when debug mode is enabled via IDE
while (!Serial) yield();
#endif
Serial.println("Bluefruit52 BLEUART Example");
Serial.println("---------------------------\n");
// Setup the BLE LED to be enabled on CONNECT
// Note: This is actually the default behavior, but provided
// here in case you want to control this LED manually via PIN 19
Bluefruit.autoConnLed(true);
// Config the peripheral connection with maximum bandwidth
// more SRAM required by SoftDevice
// Note: All config***() function must be called before begin()
Bluefruit.configPrphBandwidth(BANDWIDTH_MAX);
Bluefruit.begin();
Bluefruit.setTxPower(4); // Check bluefruit.h for supported values
//Bluefruit.setName(getMcuUniqueID()); // useful testing with multiple central connections
Bluefruit.Periph.setConnectCallback(connect_callback);
Bluefruit.Periph.setDisconnectCallback(disconnect_callback);
// To be consistent OTA DFU should be added first if it exists
bledfu.begin();
// Configure and Start Device Information Service
bledis.setManufacturer("Adafruit Industries");
bledis.setModel("Bluefruit Feather52");
bledis.begin();
// Configure and Start BLE Uart Service
bleuart.begin();
// Start BLE Battery Service
blebas.begin();
blebas.write(100);
// Set up and start advertising
startAdv();
Serial.println("Please use Adafruit's Bluefruit LE app to connect in UART mode");
Serial.println("Once connected, enter character(s) that you wish to send");
}
void startAdv(void) {
// Advertising packet
Bluefruit.Advertising.addFlags(BLE_GAP_ADV_FLAGS_LE_ONLY_GENERAL_DISC_MODE);
Bluefruit.Advertising.addTxPower();
// Include bleuart 128-bit uuid
Bluefruit.Advertising.addService(bleuart);
// Secondary Scan Response packet (optional)
// Since there is no room for 'Name' in Advertising packet
Bluefruit.ScanResponse.addName();
/* Start Advertising
* - Enable auto advertising if disconnected
* - Interval: fast mode = 20 ms, slow mode = 152.5 ms
* - Timeout for fast mode is 30 seconds
* - Start(timeout) with timeout = 0 will advertise forever (until connected)
*
* For recommended advertising interval
* https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1931/_index.html
*/
Bluefruit.Advertising.restartOnDisconnect(true);
Bluefruit.Advertising.setInterval(32, 244); // in unit of 0.625 ms
Bluefruit.Advertising.setFastTimeout(30); // number of seconds in fast mode
Bluefruit.Advertising.start(0); // 0 = Don't stop advertising after n seconds
}
void loop() {
// Forward data from HW Serial to BLEUART
while (Serial.available()) {
// Delay to wait for enough input, since we have a limited transmission buffer
delay(2);
uint8_t buf[64];
int count = Serial.readBytes(buf, sizeof(buf));
bleuart.write(buf, count);
}
// Forward from BLEUART to HW Serial
while (bleuart.available()) {
uint8_t ch;
ch = (uint8_t)bleuart.read();
Serial.write(ch);
}
}
// callback invoked when central connects
void connect_callback(uint16_t conn_handle) {
// Get the reference to current connection
BLEConnection* connection = Bluefruit.Connection(conn_handle);
char central_name[32] = { 0 };
connection->getPeerName(central_name, sizeof(central_name));
Serial.print("Connected to ");
Serial.println(central_name);
}
/**
* Callback invoked when a connection is dropped
* @param conn_handle connection where this event happens
* @param reason is a BLE_HCI_STATUS_CODE which can be found in ble_hci.h
*/
void disconnect_callback(uint16_t conn_handle, uint8_t reason) {
(void)conn_handle;
(void)reason;
Serial.println();
Serial.print("Disconnected, reason = 0x");
Serial.println(reason, HEX);
}