X-NUCLEO-WB05KN1: Which Firmware and App to Toggle LED via BLE?

[sheulisback]

Hello,

I’m working with the X-NUCLEO-WB05KN1 shield and a STM32 Nucleo board.

My goal is to make a simple demo: Toggle an LED on the board by sending a command from my smartphone. Display something on the smartphone when pressing the User button on the Nucleo.

I understand that I need to update the shield with the BLE_Transparent_Mode_STM32WB05_location_essential firmware from X-CUBE-WB05N_V2.0.0.

However: Which exact firmware binary should I flash for this purpose?

Which smartphone application should I use to communicate with the board?

Is nRF Connect sufficient or is there a recommended alternative?

Thanks in advance for your help!

[Andrew Neil]

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@sheulisback wrote:

Is nRF Connect sufficient 

 It could certainly do it, but it's a competitor's app - so this is not the place for support with that!

[sheulisback]

Hello,

Thank you for your reply.

The smartphone application is not mandatory for me, I’ll just use my phone as a tool.
I mainly need to know which application or tool you recommend to interact with the WB05KN1.
Could you please advise?

Thanks again!

[Andrew Neil]

Yes, the nRF one is perfectly fine.

The beauty of standards like BLE is that they are totally agnostic to the hardware: so all the app sees is BLE Characteristics, Services, Advertising, etc - it neither knows nor cares anything about what chips your device uses.

The point is just that it's a competitor's tool - so you won't find any support for it here.

[sheulisback]

In that case, could you suggest a non-competitor application that I can use, so I can also get support here if needed?
I’d rather use a tool aligned with your recommendations, if that’s not an issue.

Thanks again!