nrf52840 dongle ANT examples

[Shinicy99]

Good evening everyone, i'm using the nrf52 dongle for testing the comunication ANT between the Chip as a Master(send data) and the PC as slave. I've already controlled in this forum and there is a guide for installing softdevices on the dongle but i'm asking you if there is any more spcific information about using ANT protocol,installing the softdevice and using the SDK examples.

The objective of my testing is to transfer data from 2 accelerometers ( acceleration bit and gyroscope data) + timestamp and packet counter data but this is also my first approach to ANT so i wanted first to try the examples to send very simple messages. I've also readed some informatives about how ANT works so now i have only to implemented it on my dongle.

Thanks for your attention 

[Kenneth]

Hello,

If you need ANT support for the nRF52-series the only solution at the moment is to use the nRF5 SDK, so I guess you will just to refer to the documentation for that nRF5 SDK on how to work with softdevice and building applications:
https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/struct_sdk/struct/sdk_nrf5_latest.html

I am not aware of any more specific information, be aware that the documentation and sofdevice for ANT must be downloaded from thisisant.com

You can find some useful tutorials on how to work with SEGGER and nRF5 SDK here (the video show the old webpage on how to download the nRF5 SDK, but everything else should be pretty accurate I believe):
https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Development-tools/segger-embedded-studio/get-started 

Best regards,
Kenneth

[Shinicy99]

The problem is that for the dongle itself there are no examples or specification on the SDK, i found this guide:devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../nrf52840-dongle-programming-tutorial

that explains how to program some example from BLE installing the softdevice from nrfConnect but i'm not sure about ANT example, i proceeded in acquiring the softdevice from the site but now i have some doubt on how i am supposed to programm it.

[Kenneth]

The dongle is nice for demo once you have a functional application that you want to test or demonstrate, but for development you should get an nRF52840-DK, which include proper programming and debugging tools.

Kenneth