Just paird my Bluetooth Feather to my PC, but there are no SPP serial ports?

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I just uploaded the BLEUart example sketch to my BLE Feather M0.

Then I went over to BestBuy and picked up an Insignia BlueTooth USB adapter and installed the drivers on my Win 8.1 machine.

I immediately saw the device labeled "Adafruit Bluetooth LE" and paired to it.

The LED on the Feather turned to a constant blue.

I then saw windows install a few drivers but no new serial Comm ports were added.

How would it be possible to set the Feather M0 as a simple Serial Comm port so I can start streaming data to my application?

Thanks!

[EDIT]
Just tried both UART examples:
bleuart_cmdmode
bleuart_datamode
Even after re-pairing the radio, neither of these made a difference

[EDIT]
Just spoke with Adafruit support and asked if they have a Classic Bluetooth Feather, to which the replay was "All our Bluetooth boards are LE "

And after some research I think BLE is, simply, lousy.

These feathers were a complete waste of funds.. Unless someone here has a suggestion on how to connect to a PC and get data out?

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I think all your problems are at the PC end. While I think BLE is more trouble than it is worth, they aren't lousy, and the problems you currently have probably won't be fixed by by using a "classic" bluetooth like the HC-05. This is because it is about managing COM ports, not bluetooth.

I have never had the problem, but I think you will get a solution by trawling this forum.