nRF52840 Dongle: Console log & Ant+

[Vint1k]

Good afternoon.

I have asked for help before regarding my nRF52840 Dongle and Ant+ and you have helped me a lot!
But I have one more difficulty - I have an error when initializing Ant+ (ant_init failed: -2).
Since I am writing code in nRF Connect SDK - I can't connect my Dongle directly. Instead I write a HEX file (zephyr.hex) to my Dongle using your Programmer. This actually makes the debugging process a bit complicated.

Hence the first question - can I somehow connect the Dongle to the console or not?
The second question is how do I fix this error? As far as I understand, I need the S340 firmware. I read about it somewhere. If so, please tell me how to download it using your Programmer.

Thank you very much for your help,
Sincerely, Victor

[Turbo J]

The nRF Connect SDK does not support ANT (features page). I expect the linked page to update if that would ever change.

Try using BTLE instead.

[Vint1k]

Good afternoon.

First of all, thank you for your reply, but I need ANT+ to connect to my Garmin Edge (it does not support other technologies). BLE is not suitable for me.

I read that starting with SDK v2.6.0 (which was added on March 14, just a couple of days ago) there is (at least there should be) ANT support for nRF52 series devices.

Nordic engineers, can you please advise if ANT+ has appeared in this version of SDK?
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[sread]

This documentation is out of date, nRF52840 support was added with sdk-nrf v2.6.0, and nRF5340 has had production support since v2.4.0. Thanks for pointing this out, I will see if I can have it updated.