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S130 Multi-link SoftDevice released. Tell us what you think.

John Leonard

Our most advanced Bluetooth Smart SoftDevice to date is now - S130. We're excited in a big way about this one covering as it does so many different options in one protocol stack.

Again, we always value feedback from you guys toiling hard out there making great and cool stuff that the world gets to see and use, or just making things because it's fun and cool. So please let us know here - what's great, what's not, improvements, tweaks, it's all great for us, and you in the long run.

cheers, The Nordic Team

S130 Release Notes here: s130_nrf51822_0.5.0-1.releasenotes.pdf

  • John & the Nordic team: I am excited about the S130 SD release. The "S130_SoftDevice_Specification_v0.5.pdf" states "Home Automation" as being a potential application. From my experiments, the NRF51822 can reliably work indoors for a range of up to 30 feet - at least in the indoor scenarios I have tested in. How can this limited range (compared to sub-GHz transceivers), be overcome in order for the S130 SD to be used in home automation applications? Would appreciate comments/thoughts on the same.

  • Great addition . When is the documentation coming?

    I can connect to the Nordic HRM example by changing the address at:

    gs_hb_peripheral_address[NUMBER_OF_PERIPHERALS]

    Not able to connect to other HRM's? Suggestions??

  • Great features in S130, but a SDK without S130 documentation (now there are only S110 and S120) no examples using gcc... is not useful.

    I've an heartfelt request to Nordic, please, provide more support for OS X and Linux.

    Nordic has added support for IAR IDE (for those who love the 80's ), please, take into account (for those who like modern times) to support CrossWork as IDE for OS X/Linux people, there is a great post in devzone blog.

    As RK wrote " I came to Nordic because they support open source tools, at least a bit, thank you Nordic, this is one of the reasons I love you. I can use Makefiles and gcc but it's not the easiest way to develop, especially when it comes to debugging." and I fully agree with him.

    Thanks,

    -c

  • I have some nRF51822 mbed kits. I would like to make use of the new functionality in S130 (especially the new master behaviour it allows). So far I have been using the mbed online compiler with the mbed BLE API. I know that the API doesn't support S130, but is it possible for me to use the mbed platform to develop for these boards using S130? (Sorry for the noob question!) EDIT (for future readers) it is not currently possible, but it should be possible to use S130 with keil or various gcc solutions I'm currently looking into.