Michael Brown

The company sponsored BGLib is straight C. I've created an example which sets up a BlueGiga in advertisement mode with user data. It is using the BGLib that Jeff created...

It looks like you aren't getting any advertisements in your scan. If you were, you'd get some long messages from the dongle like these: COM7: 2016-05-23 21:02:11,414 - bgapi -...

Bluetooth low energy has a maximum characteristic size of something like 512 bytes. Bluegiga has Bluetooth Classic modules as well. Perhaps you are reading documentation for one of those.