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To help my kids learn programming, we decided to build our own Smart Home system. This is Part 1 of the series, setting up the development environment and getting the room temperature.

We have been told that the BLE can reach a throughput of 1 Mbps (or 2 Mbps with Bluetooth 5.0). But why do we always feel it’s extremely slow in practice? In this article, I will try to explain this, and how to improve throughput on Android.

Android supported Bluetooth Low Energy / Bluetooth Smart since 4.3 / API level 18. However, it’s not nice, in many ways.