About Blue Gecko
The Silicon Labs Blue Gecko App utilizes the Bluetooth adapter on your phone/tablet to scan for and connect to BLE devices.
The main components include: Health Thermometer, Retail Beacon, Key Fob, and BLE Stack & Profile Test.
The app can display temperature measurements from the Silicon Labs Bluetooth Smart Wireless Starter Kit (SLWSK).
The app can also indicate proximity to the SLWSTK using Find Me Profile (FMP) & Proximity Profiles (PXP) or a Beacon Profile.
The Retail Beacon component displays relevant information for AltBeacons, Eddystone Beacons, and iBeacons.
The BLE Stack & Profile Test component uses an unfiltered discovery process to pick up on the advertisement data of nearby Bluetooth devices.
This component of the app can also connect to Bluetooth devices in order to show available services, and read/write values of characteristics.
Key Features:
- Scan for any peripherals
- Get common info (UUID, RSSI)
- Browse Characteristics and Services
- Register for Notifications
- Read Services and Characteristics
- Write Characteristic values in Hex, Oct, Bin, Decimal or Ascii
Download and install
Blue Gecko version 1.3 on your
Android device!
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Android package:
com.siliconlabs.bledemo, download Blue Gecko.apk
by S####:
The demo app has good potential but it is lacking. I think that to demo the proximity profile, you really need to display the distance raw value, instead of having an image of a blinking LED. That only demonstrates that the proximity profile reading is probably not stable enough and thus you had to go with the blinking image only.