I'm looking to use a Pico W and bluetooth.
The Pico W will be attached to a lora device and used to send received data to a mobile phone app.
It forms part of a package that will be used by myself to provide services but the hardware itself may also be sold commercially.
I see all Pico W's come with a licence to use BlueKitchen's stack commercially, so that's fine.
However, it seems I need to become a member of the Bluetooth SIG and pay a significant amount of money to qualify my product with them, because I'm using bluetooth on a Pico.
Can I confirm that anyone who wants to sell a product using a Pico W's bluetooth has to become a Bluetooth SIG member and go through their product qualification process?
For me this makes bluetooth on a Pico (and to be fair bluetooth in general) very unattractive, and will need to find an alternative way of sending data. I wasn't using WiFi as the phone needs to have internet access at the same time, which rules it out for our use cases unfortunately.
(Edit: I've read viewtopic.php?t=173142 which seems to confirm this expensive blocker to using it).
The Pico W will be attached to a lora device and used to send received data to a mobile phone app.
It forms part of a package that will be used by myself to provide services but the hardware itself may also be sold commercially.
I see all Pico W's come with a licence to use BlueKitchen's stack commercially, so that's fine.
However, it seems I need to become a member of the Bluetooth SIG and pay a significant amount of money to qualify my product with them, because I'm using bluetooth on a Pico.
Can I confirm that anyone who wants to sell a product using a Pico W's bluetooth has to become a Bluetooth SIG member and go through their product qualification process?
For me this makes bluetooth on a Pico (and to be fair bluetooth in general) very unattractive, and will need to find an alternative way of sending data. I wasn't using WiFi as the phone needs to have internet access at the same time, which rules it out for our use cases unfortunately.
(Edit: I've read viewtopic.php?t=173142 which seems to confirm this expensive blocker to using it).
Statistics: Posted by mattpi — Fri Aug 30, 2024 12:29 pm — Replies 0 — Views 49
