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Bluetooth samples

To build any of the Bluetooth samples, follow the same steps as building any other Zephyr application. Refer to Developing Bluetooth Applications for more information.

Many Bluetooth samples can be run on QEMU or Native POSIX with support for external Bluetooth Controllers. Refer to the Hardware setup section for further details.

Several of the bluetooth samples will build a Zephyr-based Controller that can then be used with any external Host (including Zephyr running natively or with QEMU or Native POSIX), those are named accordingly with an “HCI” prefix in the documentation and are prefixed with hci_ in their folder names.

Note

If you want to run any bluetooth sample on the nRF5340 device (build using -DBOARD=nrf5340dk_nrf5340_cpuapp or -DBOARD=nrf5340dk_nrf5340_cpuapp_ns) you must also build and program the corresponding sample for the nRF5340 network core Bluetooth: HCI RPMsg which implements the Bluetooth Low Energy controller.

Note

The mutually-shared encryption key created during host-device paring may get old after many test iterations. If this happens, subsequent host-device connections will fail. You can force a re-paring and new key to be created by removing the device from the associated devices list on the host.