dongle driver confusion / Zadig vs BLED112

SebperaltaSebperalta philly
edited December 2018 in Ganglion
I'm running windows 10 and followed the steps to install the WinUSB v6.1.7600.16835 driver on the "Low Energy Dongle" using Zadig. When I try to search for "CSR dongle" on the GUI however, OpenBCI Hub crashes with error: "OpenBCIHub Fatal Error: No compatible USB Bluetooth 4.0 device found!". If I restart everything and attempt to search for "BLED112 Dongle", the bottom of the GUI reports: "Failed to start Ganglion BLE Driver: please see [tutorials website]"

My laptop bluetooth is on and so is my ganglion. How do I fix this?

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  • wjcroftwjcroft Mount Shasta, CA
    edited December 2018
    Seb, hi.

    Your easiest avenue is to purchase the BLED112 dongle from the shop,


    The CSR dongle is deprecated and no longer recommended.

    The built-in Bluetooth in your laptop will not be used. This is because there is so much variation in Windows laptop Bluetooth hardware.

    Sorry for the confusion.

    Regards,

    William

  • SebperaltaSebperalta philly
    The dongle is named “low energy dongle” on my windows machine. How do I confirm if it’s the csr or the bled112 dongle?

    The dongle came with a kit I purchased less than a month ago.
  • wjcroftwjcroft Mount Shasta, CA
    Dongle photo on the Shop page shows letters "BLED112" directly printed on usb plug.

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  • SebperaltaSebperalta philly
    Mine says bled112. When I attempt to search for a board it says failed to start ganglion ble driver.

    Is this because I updated the driver with Zadig? If so how do I obtain the correct bled112 driver?
  • wjcroftwjcroft Mount Shasta, CA
    Can you try uninstalling the Zadig driver version? (Using Windows Restore?) BLED112 is a plain usb serial device (COM port), and does not have a driver.


    If you have another laptop available, try using the BLED112 there, as a comparison.

    Regards,

    William

  • SebperaltaSebperalta philly
    So I uninstalled the device and deleted the driver, but it shows up in device manager under USB serial devices and not under COM which is where it was found on a different laptop. 

    When I attempt to connect, the GUI says failed to start Ganglion BLE driver. And if I attempt to search for the ganglion it says, CODE412: Error serial port not open.

    Is there a link you could provide me that will install the correct driver I need for the BLED112 to be interpreted as a COM port and for the ganglion BLE driver to start ?
  • SebperaltaSebperalta philly
    Just solved the issue, I used zadig to change the driver to CDC USB serial and everything is running along swimmingly
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