@Paolo_Tealdi Glad it came in useful 
I’ll have to revisit Thunkable again once this semester finishes and see if any updates/changes have been made that provide an easier solution. I’ll also try to do some more investigations on being able to receive bytes as well; however, the ‘easy’ way - subscribing to notifications - was not available last time I looked, and doing a standard read on a timer didn’t work… But again, I’ll have a more in depth look in a month or so