Deep Dive w/Scott: Zephyr BLE Workflow

Deep Dive w/Scott: Zephyr BLE Workflow

Author: Adafruit Industries August 22, 2026 Duration: 54:35
Join Scott on CircuitPython Day as he discusses the BLE workflow on Zephyr. He'll also answer any questions folks have. Visit the Adafruit shop online - http://www.adafruit.com Thanks to dcd for timecodes: 0:00 Getting started 1:01 Hello, welcome to Deep Dive 1:38 Getting started 2:00 Circuit Python (CP) is a version of python for microcontrollers - example NRF52840 feather 4:00 Deep Dives are usualy on Friday's at 2pm pacific, 5pm eastern time 4:55 Chats on youtube or discord https://adafru.it/discord #live-broadcast-chat channel 6:37 Working on the Zephyr port, currently BLE ( blue tooth energy ) 7:15 Address GAP and GATT in earlier episodes 7:24 Now addressing BLE workflow, talk to CP from phone or tablet 8:00 File Glider application https://learn.adafruit.com/file-glider/overview 9:00 looking forward to LLM assisted mobile app 9:45 using OBS noise supression filter 10:00 comments on stuttering/clipping on youtube 10:36 using the pi coding agent GLM5.2 open weight model 13:00 trying to use bluetooth simulator (BSIM) in the tests 13:49 this PR has bluetooth starting earlier, boot.py, and blink codes, then code.py 15:20 sublime merge review of pi LLM agent's code 17:10 allocation of memory changed, since allocation shouldn't happen early on 18:50 LLMs sometimes generate very wordy comments - need to watch that 20:00 BLE characteristics, could be a topic to discuss 21:40 GATT discussion 25:30 characteristic buffer and incoming/outgoing packet buffering 28:00 BLE workfile file and serial services 28:55 Zephyr build in BLE workfile 30:00 BLE lower level test cases ( need to be human readable ) 33:00 BLE file transfer protocol in CP 33:55 check in with the BLE build progress 36:00 running GLM 5.2 via Klien Pass subscription ( was LLama cloud ) and other subscriptions 38:18 "make test" 40:00 return to the merge and draft PR from zephyr_ble_workflow #11226 42:40 Local LLMs (ds4: DeepSeek 4 ) looking at github antirez/ds4 44:40 Zephyr opinions/comments (e.g: kconfig and device tree) 52:28 Wrap up ----------------------------------------- LIVE CHAT IS HERE! http://adafru.it/discord Subscribe to Adafruit on YouTube: http://adafru.it/subscribe New tutorials on the Adafruit Learning System: http://learn.adafruit.com/ -----------------------------------------

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