Substitute for the OpenBCI Dongle

tim.zakharenko · May 2017

Hello!

I have connected to the Ganglion board through Trendnet TBW-107UB dongle, board was successfully found. It is not described to support CSR 4.0 stack(whatever CSR 4.0 is, I'm not sure that I can call it a stack)

Still, I cannot find board in OpenBCI gui.

Is it possible to use nonoriginal dongle to connect to the board?

Also I have hard time understanding what FTDI Driver is and how to tell if it is working after installation.

Platform is Windows 10 Pro version 1703 build 15063.296

wjcroft · May 2017

Tim, hi.

You need the CSR dongle and driver stack, as described in the pages below. The CSR dongles are very inexpensive.

http://docs.openbci.com/Tutorials/02-Ganglion_Getting Started_Guide#ganglion-getting-started-guide-downloadrun-the-openbci-gui-on-windows

https://shop.openbci.com/products/csr-4-0-bluetooth-dongle?variant=34793373070

http://brainwaves.io/wp/blog/2017/04/26/openbci-ganglion-windows-10-part-3-connecting/

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[Windows 7 related posts with more info on CSR driver stack, but since you have Windows 10, follow steps above]

http://openbci.com/forum/index.php?p=/discussion/918/ganglion-and-windows-7

http://www.gleescape.com/posts/3093

wjcroft · May 2017

FTDI driver is only required for the Cyton dongle, not Ganglion.

Substitute for the OpenBCI Dongle

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