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Mon 2019.11.18
'So far, I'm not impressed. Any ideas?'
I hope your comment 'not impressed' is not directed at Espruino. You will enjoy the ease of use once you are up and running.
Hi @user104841 no experience with Win7
I did however see this reading over the link posted in #1
Sixth bullet item under 'Features' heading
'Does not add Bluetooth Low Energy (Bluetooth 4.0) capability to Windows 7 and earlier.'
I agree that their URL trailing in 'le' is mis-leading indeed! Time to contact their support.
For what it's worth, I grabbed a generic Insignia BLE 4.01 dongle, ($10 at BestBuy) plugged it in to Win10 and it just worked out of the box. My apologies if that dampens your spirits. . . .
First bullet item
'Bluetooth Low Energy'
'Pretty much all new computers come with Bluetooth 4, but you may need to get an external Bluetooth LE dongle if your computer: Is a Windows PC with a Windows version before 10'What version of the Native WebIDE is installed?
EDIT: (time to eat crow)That said, just found a ref to the BCM20702A1 supported device but not the BCM20702A0 mentioned in post #1
Second bullet item
Plugable USB-BT4LE - Broadcom BCM20702A1http://www.espruino.com/Quick+Start+BLE#requirements
This may not apply as the device 'A0' is not listed below the supported device types
Were these instructions followed verbatim?
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I was only trying to use a puck.js on win 7/64-bit. Not having Bluetooth on my PC I bought a BTL4LE as recommended from here: https://plugable.com/products/usb-bt4le . Zadig timed out after 5 mins consuming no cpu, and then froze. I had to kill it with Task Manager. But examination of the BTL4LE using Device Manager suggests the winusb driver was correctly installed (see attached screen clips). However, Espruino native IDE only recognises COM1 and not the new BTL4LE device (which has name BCM20702A0).
So far, I'm not impressed. Any ideas?