BLE on a pico w

[Diggy301]

I updated my pico w with the most recent circuit python version and I tried to use BLE with no success.

Has anyone had success with this?

For my implementation I followed the docs http://kmkfw.io/docs/ble_hid#enabling-ble

[xs5871]

Circuitpython doesn't support BLE on the pico w. (adafruit/circuitpython#7693)

[dsz-dsz-k]

Now that support has been officially added to MicroPython, it would be so nice to have CircuitPython support it too...

[dsz-dsz-k]

And apparently, it won't happen any time soon. People over at CircuitPython repository just stated yesterday that updating support for BLE on Pico wasn't a priority...

adafruit/circuitpython#7693 (comment)

[ItsTerm1n4l]

is it possible to use micropython with kmk then?

[grasegger]

@ItsTerm1n4l I highly doubted it, but did not want to answer without any data, so I did a quick test that leads to an no.

Since I have no serial set up from the device I can't tell you more in that regard, but I researched a bit about the differences and in this repository, and even though circuitpython is a fork of micropython, one can not quickly fall back on the upstream.

[ItsTerm1n4l]

Ok, thank you. BLE would be a really good feature for circuit python to implement though. :(