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Nordic Thingy:52 Node.js library on Raspberry Pi

Welcome to the Nordic Thingy:52 Node.js library example. Please see http://www.nordicsemi.com/thingy for the latest Nordic Thingy:52 news and software releases.

This library is using noble-device and noble to handle the Bluetooth connection.

Prerequisites

  1. A Raspberry Pi with built in Bluetooth or a Raspberry Pi and a Bluetooth USB dongle.

Note that the internet radio and microphone example might not work to well with the built in Bluetooth adapter due to bandwidth limitations. It is therefore recommended to use an external Bluetooth USB dongle when using this example.

  1. The Raspbian Jessie operating system image.
  2. Git, Node.js, npm and noble-device.

Setup Raspbian

  1. Install Raspbian on your Raspberry Pi's SD card using Etcher.

To enable the SSH server on your Pi, make a new file called ssh without any extensions in the boot partition on the SD card.

  1. Insert the SD card and power up the Raspberry Pi. Then log in using the default username and password. It's higly recommended to change the default password using the passwd command.
  2. Update the package manager: sudo apt-get update.
  3. Add the latest version of Node.js to package manager: curl -sL https://deb.nodesource.com/setup_7.x | sudo -E bash -
  4. Install dependencies: sudo apt-get install bluetooth bluez libbluetooth-dev libudev-dev git nodejs

Install using GitHub

  1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/NordicPlayground/Nordic-Thingy52-Nodejs.git
  2. Go into the Nordic-Thingy52-Nodejs folder. cd /Nordic-Thingy52-Nodejs
  3. Install noble-device: npm install noble-device
  4. Find examples cd examples.

Install using npm

  1. Install package: npm install thingy52
  2. Find examples cd node_modules/thingy52/examples.

Run the examples

  1. Check if the example you want to run has other required npm packages by opening the example. As we can see below the radio.js script requires icecast, lame and util.
var Thingy = require('../index');
var icecast = require("icecast");
var lame = require("lame");
var util = require('util');
  1. Install required npm packages: npm install <package name>
  2. Run example: sudo node <example_name>.js