Bluetooth SIG PTS Testing without the Laird Connectivity PTS Dongle

At work we needed to certify a BLE device recently. We had the legacy PTS dongle provided by Bluetooth SIG, however I found it only supports testing devices up the BLE 4.2 So we need a new BLE Dongle - they now only support the Laird Connectivity | 451-00004 https://store.bluetooth.com/ This is normally stocked by all the online electronics distributers; element14, digikey, mouser, arrow etc. Unfortunately it was out of stock on all of them, for about 4 months. ...

May 11, 2021 · 5 min · Andrew Leech