.. _bluetooth-hci-uart-sample: Bluetooth: HCI UART #################### Overview ********* Expose the Zephyr Bluetooth controller support over UART to another device/CPU using the H:4 HCI transport protocol (requires HW flow control from the UART). Requirements ************ * A board with BLE support Default UART settings ********************* By default the controller builds use the following settings: * Baudrate: 1Mbit/s * 8 bits, no parity, 1 stop bit * Hardware Flow Control (RTS/CTS) enabled Building and Running ******************** This sample can be found under :zephyr_file:`samples/bluetooth/hci_uart` in the Zephyr tree, and it is built as a standard Zephyr application. Using the controller with emulators and BlueZ ********************************************* The instructions below show how to use a Nordic nRF5x device as a Zephyr BLE controller and expose it to Linux's BlueZ. This can be very useful for testing the Zephyr Link Layer with the BlueZ Host. The Zephyr BLE controller can also provide a modern BLE 5.0 controller to a Linux-based machine for native BLE support or QEMU-based development. First, make sure you have a recent BlueZ version installed by following the instructions in the :ref:`bluetooth_bluez` section. Now build and flash the sample for the Nordic nRF5x board of your choice. All of the Nordic Development Kits come with a Segger IC that provides a debugger interface and a CDC ACM serial port bridge. More information can be found in :ref:`nordic_segger`. For example, to build for the nRF52832 Development Kit: .. zephyr-app-commands:: :zephyr-app: samples/bluetooth/hci_uart :board: nrf52dk_nrf52832 :goals: build flash .. _bluetooth-hci-uart-qemu-posix: Using the controller with QEMU or native_sim ============================================ In order to use the HCI UART controller with QEMU or :ref:`native_sim ` you will need to attach it to the Linux Host first. To do so simply build the sample and connect the UART to the Linux machine, and then attach it with this command: .. code-block:: console sudo btattach -B /dev/ttyACM0 -S 1000000 -R .. note:: Depending on the serial port you are using you will need to modify the ``/dev/ttyACM0`` string to point to the serial device your controller is connected to. .. note:: If using the BBC micro:bit you will need to modify the baudrate argument from ``1000000`` to ``115200``. .. note:: The ``-R`` flag passed to ``btattach`` instructs the kernel to avoid interacting with the controller and instead just be aware of it in order to proxy it to QEMU later. If you are running :file:`btmon` you should see a brief log showing how the Linux kernel identifies the attached controller. Once the controller is attached follow the instructions in the :ref:`bluetooth_qemu_native` section to use QEMU with it. .. _bluetooth-hci-uart-bluez: Using the controller with BlueZ =============================== In order to use the HCI UART controller with BlueZ you will need to attach it to the Linux Host first. To do so simply build the sample and connect the UART to the Linux machine, and then attach it with this command: .. code-block:: console sudo btattach -B /dev/ttyACM0 -S 1000000 .. note:: Depending on the serial port you are using you will need to modify the ``/dev/ttyACM0`` string to point to the serial device your controller is connected to. .. note:: If using the BBC micro:bit you will need to modify the baudrate argument from ``1000000`` to ``115200``. If you are running :file:`btmon` you should see a comprehensive log showing how BlueZ loads and initializes the attached controller. Once the controller is attached follow the instructions in the :ref:`bluetooth_ctlr_bluez` section to use BlueZ with it. Debugging the controller ======================== The sample can be debugged using RTT since the UART is otherwise used by this application. To enable debug over RTT the debug configuration file can be used. .. code-block:: console west build samples/bluetooth/hci_uart -- -DEXTRA_CONF_FILE='debug.conf' Then attach RTT as described here: :ref:`Using Segger J-Link ` Support for the Direction Finding ================================= The sample can be built with the support for the BLE Direction Finding. To enable this feature build this sample for specific board variants that provide required hardware configuration for the Radio. .. code-block:: console west build samples/bluetooth/hci_uart -b nrf52833dk_nrf52833@df -- -DCONFIG_BT_CTLR_DF=y You can use following targets: * ``nrf5340dk_nrf5340_cpunet@df`` * ``nrf52833dk_nrf52833@df`` Check the :ref:`bluetooth_direction_finding_connectionless_rx` and the :ref:`bluetooth_direction_finding_connectionless_tx` for more details. Using a USB CDC ACM UART ======================== The sample can be configured to use a USB UART instead. See :zephyr_file:`samples/bluetooth/hci_uart/boards/nrf52840dongle_nrf52840.conf` and :zephyr_file:`samples/bluetooth/hci_uart/boards/nrf52840dongle_nrf52840.overlay`. Using the controller with the Zephyr host ========================================= This describes how to hook up a board running this sample to a board running an application that uses the Zephyr host. On the controller side, the `zephyr,bt-c2h-uart` DTS property (in the `chosen` block) is used to select which uart device to use. For example if we want to keep the console logs, we can keep console on uart0 and the HCI on uart1 like so: .. code-block:: dts / { chosen { zephyr,console = &uart0; zephyr,shell-uart = &uart0; zephyr,bt-c2h-uart = &uart1; }; }; On the host application, some config options need to be used to select the H4 driver instead of the built-in controller: .. code-block:: kconfig CONFIG_BT_HCI=y CONFIG_BT_CTLR=n CONFIG_BT_H4=y Similarly, the `zephyr,bt-uart` DTS property selects which uart to use: .. code-block:: dts / { chosen { zephyr,console = &uart0; zephyr,shell-uart = &uart0; zephyr,bt-uart = &uart1; }; };