Replace HC-05 with Photon 2 BLE

[BobG]

@rickkas7 : Thanks for the quick reply. I found this earlier posting about your library, which I think is what I want:

BLESerial library alternatives

I was able to get the UART example working on my Argon yesterday with it printing down the serial. Now I need to now make it usable to communicate between a mobile app and the Argon. The BLE Wiring API had a scope that included a BLESerial library. Since that doesn’t seem to exist yet, is there an alternative library I can migrate in easily?

Your response in this post seems to indicate that your library relies upon some special code that Nordic added to their SOC. So I was wondering if this solution would work on a Photon 2 which doesn't use Noridc?

My problem seems simple: I have an app that uses bluetooth 2 SPP to communicate with a robot. The old robot design uses an HC-05 bluetooth module on the robot end of the project. I'd like to re-work the robot to use a Photon 2 (the old robot used a Photon which is now out of production). Since Photon 2 has BLE, I thought about saving the cost of the HC-05 by using the internal BLE of Photon 2, but of course BLE does not support SPP. So - is there any (simple) solution to add SPP support to the Photon 2 that doesn't require extra hardware (like the HC-05)?