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- You Reply: It's 000000, at least this works for Beetle. Not sure what is the big secret Nana Wang. Clear question, clear answer next time. As side note even you pair with PC it will get you nowhere. You need their communication protocol which is a non-standard protocol and it is stored in a dongle they sell for $9. Nana's next help will be to suggest to buy their proprietory dongle. It's July 23, 2020 and their ASAP is still not getting back to you.
- Topic: Scanning for nearby devices
- You Reply: It would be compatible if you would make it so! But you won't
- You Reply: To us... their customers,
What I don't like DFROBOT is telling you to buy their dongle for a $9 as an add-on to $15 Beetle. To accomplish that, they provide an incomplete and outdated firmware for BLE, with flawed protocols to prevent other dongles access. HID protocol is also an incomplete protocol!!!
HID Event from my PC
(Device BTHLEDevice\{00001812-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb}_Dev_VID&01000d_PID&0000_REV&0110_f83002091a38\8&28f48065&8&0023 was not migrated due to partial or ambiguous match.)
The right business model would be to do fix all these fundamental issues and sell 100's of thousands Beetles alone. If they don't have time, perhaps releasing firmware as an open source could be viable fix.
I believe they are missing a huge business opportunity. They have great product, the smallest MC with BLE on the market today. These connectivity problems, and lack of support, for instance, incomplete technical documentation where links don't even work and reference pages with missing pictures, nor updates to documentation at all, obsolete firmware, have a huge impact on selling their products.
My two cents.
Greywoltek.