The Silicon Labs BLED112,
Bluetooth low energy USB Dongle is a single mode USB device enabling Bluetooth low energy connectivity for PC’s and other devices
having a USB port.
BLED112 Bluetooth Dongle integrates all Bluetooth 4.0 single mode features. The USB dongle can simulate virtual COM port. The COM port emulation enables simple host application development using Bluetooth Framework on any Windows OS.
Connecting BLED112
Once plugge BLED112 appears as a COM port in the system. Windows 10 and above installs the BLED112 driver automatically. Windows XP, Windows 7 and sometimes Windows 8 do not install the BLED112 driver automatically and you need to download and install it manually. You can find the BLED112 driver by this link: BLED112 Windows Driver. Or directly from our site. You do not need any additional SDKs to be able to use BLED112 Bluetooth USB dongle with Bluetooth Framework.
Features
As BLED112 is the single mode Bluetooth Low Energy module it does not support any Bluetooth Classic features. BLED112 can be used to connect to GATT Client, to discover Bluetooth LE devices, to capture Bluetooth LE advertisements, to LE advertising and to BLE pairing (passkey notification and passkey request pairing are only supported).
Should you have any questions about using BLED112 with Bluetooth Framework please do not hesitate to contact us.