Can a standard SPP serial bluetooth setup be done with this module, or is it only BTLE capable?
if so can you link an example, I didn’t see any inlcuded in the examples when I installed support for the board.
Apollo3 is BLE only, so no SPP. However you can create your own service that achieves the same result such as the Nordic Uart Service (NUS). The difference is that because there is no standard you will likely need to have control of the devices on both ends.
When I looked into that there didn’t seem to be a way to bind to a ble uart service as a com port. I am just missing how to do that?
No - you are correct. Since there is no standard you won’t easily be able to just make a BLE service appear as a com port on a computer. However you can, for example, use the Web Bluetooth API and write a web application that can receive and transmit data in a way very similar to a UART service. Making the bridge from the browser to your computer (if you want to interface with existing programs running natively) may be difficult - I have not looked into that aspect.
Thanks for the reply. looks like the short answer is ignore ble, the old standard was better.
Its a shame that that answer disqualified the artemis, it was really nice in the other areas