Pairing Arduino Nano 33 IoT to Formula BT1 remote

Official Hardware Nano Family Nano 33 IoT
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I'm rather new in BT-programming on Arduino Nano 33 IOT. So my question is: has any one experience with paring a Formula BT1 remote with the NANO (or any other bluetooth remote)?

I can see the BT1 remote, it looks I can connect but I do not see it on the BT1 remote.

Please advise or (if possible) share some (example) code as guideline?

Thanks in advance

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Welcome to the forum.

  • If the remote needs pairing the Arduino products will not work. Pairing is an optional feature in BLE and is not supported by the ArduinoBLE library.

  • Do you have any documentation of the remote?

  • You could use a generic BLE app on your smartphone to see whether you can connect to the remote and read/write to the services and characteristics. This information would be useful for your next steps.

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Thanks Klaus_K

First of all, documentation of the remote is so far limited, no not available. Via a sniffer kind of software I did discover services, characteristics, etc. But it will be a challenge to unravel their meaning and way of use. It tried to find documentation (Fomuler BT1) but so far I did not succeed, and Formuler has no contact info (but maybe I have to look better).

Maybe it is semantics but to be sure. I want the remote to be paired the Arduino, not the Arduino with te remote. To be concrete, I want to use the remote to send commands (i.e., 1.2.3, .. 9) to the Arduino so the Arduino can convert these commands into IR-remote commands.

Are there more suitable BLE (or Bluetooth) libraries that I can use?