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Developer Tools // Simplicity Connect App

Simplicity Connect Mobile App

Test and debug Bluetooth®, Wi-Fi®, and Matter® embedded applications quickly - including OTA updates, data throughput, and Android and iOS interoperability. Download Simplicity Connect app now!

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  1. Overview

Simplicity Connect Overview

Simplicity Connect, formerly EFR Connect, is Silicon Labs' mobile app for fast and easy Bluetooth® Low Energy, Wi-Fi, and Matter development.

You can quickly test and debug your BLE embedded application code, Over-the-Air (OTA) firmware update, data throughput, and interoperability with Android and iOS mobile devices.

Now, you can test Matter devices from the Simplicity Connect App. You can use Matter devices over Thread or Wi-Fi. The Matter demos that Simplicity Connect supports are Light, Door Lock, Window, Sensor, Thermostats, and Plug. Learn more about Simplicity Connect Demos.

Troubleshooting with Simplicity Connect is a breeze. The app indicates when your setup is ready to go. Its many features help you to fix bugs in no time and test data throughput and mobile interoperability with a tap of a button on the app. The out-of-the-box demos familiarize you with Simplicity Connect and the entire Silicon Labs development ecosystem. For an in-depth analysis, you can use our Network Analyzer to see the packet trace data.

Simplicity Connect works with all Silicon Labs Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Matter development kits, SoCs, and modules.

Source code - Get Simplicity Connect source code on GitHub for Android and iOS .

Simplicity Connect - Demo View

The Simplicity Connect BLE mobile app is divided into two main functional areas, the Demo view and Develop view. The Demo view provides you with demos for quickly testing sample apps on the Silicon Labs GSDK, which is available via Simplicity Studio.

Simplicity Connect includes the following demos:

  • Blinky Demo: The ”Hello World” of BLE – Toggling a LED is only one tap away.  
  • Throughput Demo: Measure application data throughput between the BLE hardware and your mobile device in both directions 
  • Health Thermometer Demo: Connect to a BLE hardware kit and receive the temperature data from the on-board sensor.
  • Connected Lighting DMP Demo: Leverage the dynamic multi-protocol (DMP) sample apps to control a DMP light node from a mobile and protocol-specific switch node (Zigbee, proprietary) while keeping the light status in sync across all devices.
  • Range Test Demo: Visualize the RSSI and other RF performance data on the app while running the Range Test on a pair of Silicon Labs radio boards.
  • Motion: Control a 3D render of a Silicon Labs Thunderboard or Dev Kit that follows the phyiscal board movements.
  • Environment: Read and display the data from the on-board sensors on a Silicon Labs Thunderboard or Dev Kit.
  • Wi-Fi Commissioning: Commission a Wi-Fi device over BLE.
  • Bluetooth Electronic Shelf Labels (ESL): Adds and commissions ESL tags to the system network by scanning the tag's QR code with the mobile device's camera and provides the user a UI to view the list commissioned tags and control them.


Simplicity Connect - Develop View

The Develop view contains several useful functionalities to help you create and troubleshoot embedded Bluetooth applications based on EFR32/BGM devices. Here is a rundown of the main functionalities:

  • Bluetooth Browser: A generic and powerful tool for exploring the nearby BLE devices
  • Bluetooth RSSI Graph:  A graphical representation of RSSI for scanned devices
  • Bluetooth Advertiser: Create multiple advertisement sets and enable them in parallel
  • Bluetooth GATT Configurator: Create and manipulate multiple GATT databases;
  • Bluetooth Interoperability Test: Verify interoperability between Silicon labs BLE hardware/software and your mobile device

Bluetooth Browser Key Features

 Scan results with a rich data set

 Connectable/non-connectable

 Beacon type

 Advertisement interval

 RSSI

 Bluetooth address

 Ability to favorite devices on the scan list so that they surface to the top

 Advanced filtering options to quickly identify the devices you want

 Device name

 Raw advertisement data

 RSSI

 Beacon type (iBeacon, Eddystone, AltBeacon)

 Favorites only

 Connectable only

 Option to save filters for later use

 Support for multiple connections

 Ability to rename services/characteristics with 128-bit UUIDs (mappings dictionary)

 Over-the-air (OTA) device firmware upgrade (DFU) with reliable and speed modes

 Configurable MTU and connection interval

 Support for all GATT operations

Bluetooth Advertiser Key Features

 Supports legacy and extended advertising

 Configurable advertisement interval, TX Power, primary/secondary PHYs

 Start and stop advertisements manually, or stop based on time or event 

 Support for multiple AD types

 

Bluetooth GATT Configurator  

 Create and manipulate multiple local GATT databases on Simplicity Connect

 Add services, characteristics and descriptors

 Operate the local GATT via the browser when connected to a device

 Import and export a GATT database between Simplicity Connect and Simplicity Studio GATT Configurator 

 

Interoperability (IOP) Key Features

 Run a sequence of BLE operations to verify interoperability: Scan, Connect, GATT discovery, GATT operations, Security, Throughput, OTA 

 Export results log

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Download Simplicity Connect App 

Download Simplicity Connect app on your smartphone and speed up development now! 

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Android/Google Play Store

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Get up and running quickly with precompiled demos, application notes and examples. Use advanced tools including energy profiling and network analysis to optimize your MCU and wireless systems.

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The First BLE Mobile App with Throughput and Mobile Interoperability Tests

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How can an embedded developer squeeze the most value out of a BLE Mobile App?

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Download Android Source Code on GitHub

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Download iOS Source Code on GitHub

Simplicity Connect Intro Video

Check out this video to get a 1-minute introduction to the Simplicity Connect features.

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