How to use WaveTek nRF51822 BLE Shield (design for Nordic) ?

[chtsai]

I am a newer for Nordic's BLE. and has WaveTek nRF51822 BLE Shield (design for Nordic), and downloaded the S110 softdevice version 7.3.0 and the wavetek_connectivity _s110v1.0.0.hex(.hex file) to the chip got from Nordic web without error through the SWD I/F of STM32 Nucleo board.

But The App (nFR UART 2.0) in my android smart phone can't find this BLE device. so I can't go further now.

I want to use the UART ( PC side ) connect to it and do some test in the WaveTek BLE shield, to see any TX and RX data can correctly display between the PC terminal application and the APP(nFR UART 2.0) in the BLE smart phone.

so first I want to make sure the wavetek BLE shield can be scanned by APP . but has problem. Anyone know the right steps/process to achieve the gold (test UART I/F) in the Wavetek BLE shield ? Or can provide a suggestion how to do simple UART test through the examples in the Nordic's S110 SDK ?

Thanks

[run_ar]

If you want the Wavetek board to be discoverable when using the connectivity app, you need to run an application on your STM32 to control the device. However for brief testing you could program the shield with the softdevice and one of the examples in our SDK. There is a precomiled applicaiton in the hex folder in each example, e.g. nRF51_SDK_10.0.0_dc26b5e\examples\ble_peripheral\ble_app_uart\hex. However this will not be controllable from the STM32.

If you want to interface the nRF51 using your STM32 board I think you should port one of the STM32L152RE examples, or on of the serialization examples in the SDK.