Connection Issue

[DarrenGuinness]

I am working to get the Ollie up and running on a windows 10 machine. I have installed node, node-gyp, noble, sphero noble, and their dependencies. I can successfully find Bluetooth connections via ./advertisement-discovery.js, and can connect to peripherals using ./peripheral-explorer.js, however when I run the basic connection example with the Ollie's address, I get the following output:

C:\Users\IronLab\Desktop\test\node_modules\sphero\lib\adaptors\ble.js:404
return this._connectedService(serviceId).characteristics;
^

TypeError: Cannot read property 'characteristics' of null
at Adaptor._connectedCharacteristics (C:\Users\IronLab\Desktop\test\node_modules\sphero\lib\adaptors\ble.js:404:43)
at Adaptor._connectCharacteristic (C:\Users\IronLab\Desktop\test\node_modules\sphero\lib\adaptors\ble.js:357:12)
at C:\Users\IronLab\Desktop\test\node_modules\sphero\lib\adaptors\ble.js:302:12
at Adaptor._connectService (C:\Users\IronLab\Desktop\test\node_modules\sphero\lib\adaptors\ble.js:338:5)
at C:\Users\IronLab\Desktop\test\node_modules\sphero\lib\adaptors\ble.js:300:10
at Adaptor._connectBLE (C:\Users\IronLab\Desktop\test\node_modules\sphero\lib\adaptors\ble.js:324:5)
at Adaptor.getCharacteristic (C:\Users\IronLab\Desktop\test\node_modules\sphero\lib\adaptors\ble.js:299:8)
at Adaptor.writeServiceCharacteristic (C:\Users\IronLab\Desktop\test\node_modules\sphero\lib\adaptors\ble.js:274:8)
at Adaptor.setTXPower (C:\Users\IronLab\Desktop\test\node_modules\sphero\lib\adaptors\ble.js:203:8)
at C:\Users\IronLab\Desktop\test\node_modules\sphero\lib\adaptors\ble.js:156:10

Am I missing an extra dependency?

[deadprogram]

Hi @DarrenGuinness what is your output from /advertisement-discovery.js for your Ollie?

Also, are you able to run peripheral-explorer.js using the Ollie's ID? What is the output?

[DarrenGuinness]

advertisement-discovery output:

node ./advertisement-discovery.js
peripheral discovered (ed9a8071f1fd with address <ed:9a:80:71:f1:fd, random>, connectable true, RSSI -59:
hello my local name is:
2B-F1FD
can I interest you in any of the following advertised services:
["22bb746f2ba075542d6f726568705327"]
my TX power level is:
-10

peripheral discovered (ffc7d9af5def with address <ff:c7:d9:af:5d:ef, random>, connectable true, RSSI -67:
hello my local name is:
2B-5DEF
can I interest you in any of the following advertised services:
["22bb746f2ba075542d6f726568705327"]
my TX power level is:
-10

peripheral discovered (1c1ac09ee2c5 with address <1c:1a:c0:9e:e2:c5, public>, connectable true, RSSI -74:
hello my local name is:
undefined
can I interest you in any of the following advertised services:
[]
here is my manufacturer data:
"4c000906031cc0a81b53"

--------------------------End of output----------------------------

I am able to run the peripheral-explorer script using the Ollie id. The output is as follows:

node ./peripheral-explorer.js ed9a8071f1fd
peripheral with ID ed9a8071f1fd found
Local Name = 2B-F1FD
TX Power Level = -10
Service Data =
Service UUIDs = 22bb746f2ba075542d6f726568705327

services and characteristics:
--------------------------End of output----------------------------

[deadprogram]

Hi @DarrenGuinness I see that no services/characteristics were found for that ID, similar to the problem here #49 except you are on Windows. Hmm.

Which Bluetooth LE adaptor are you using?

[deadprogram]

Hello @DarrenGuinness I saw this issue on Noble noble/noble#372 perhaps you can try downgrading bluetooth-hci-socket to v0.4.2 as suggested there?

[debu66er]

Hi @deadprogram I am suffering exactly the same issue on Raspberry Pi (with Raspbian Jessi). I downgraded bluetooth-hci-socket to v0.4.2 but it continues failing with same error.
@DarrenGuinness, did it work for you?

[DarrenGuinness]

I ended up switching to ubuntu 14.04. After that the setup and install was a cinch.

[sciprogramming]

@deadprogram , @debu66er

Hi
I am having exactly the same problem/stacj on Rpi3 -- here is the output when I run peripheral-explorer -- I installed sphero and noble as of today, even though unlike @DarrenGuinness I do get a non-empty "services and characteristics" -- -- any suggestions I may want to try?

sudo node peripheral-explorer.js "e3b3fe9c5254"
peripheral with ID e3b3fe9c5254 found
Local Name = BB-5254
TX Power Level = 6
Manufacturer Data = 3330
Service Data =
Service UUIDs = 22bb746f2ba075542d6f726568705327

services and characteristics:
1800 (Generic Access)
1801 (Generic Attribute)
2a00 (Device Name)
properties read
value | ''
2a01 (Appearance)
properties read
value | ''
2a04 (Peripheral Preferred Connection Parameters)
properties read
value | ''