Wirepass and Bluetooth multiprotocol

[CyTaylor]

Hello,

I have had posted several times over the years and solved a problem or two. I find it very thorough to finish out a post by concluding my findings. This said, I find this forum top notch and have had the experience as many people post excellent knowledge, thank you. 

I am inquiring about anyone with multiprotocol radio usage of an NRF52840 utilizing Wirepas and Bluetooth. I would like to know if anyone has experience doing it and their success. This forum has mentioned that it is possible: Multiprotocol, and Timeslots.

[Susheel Nuguru]

Hi,

I see that this question is wisely directed to the community here. Just wanted to drop my thoughts here. 

We do not have any support for Wirepass in both older (deprecated) nRF5SDK  or in newer nRF Connect SDK (which you most likely already knew). It does not look like wirepass supports Zephyr RTOS, 

In which case, it looks very cumbersome task to integrate wirepass to timslots API of Nordic solutions.

[CyTaylor]

Susheel,

Thank you for your response. Would your cumbersome description be a lack of vision to getting to success. To my point, if it is not supported by Nordic, or Zephyr then it would not already be engineered and therefore would need to be engineered.

Or does your cumbersome description have some personal vision into getting to success, but is to cumbersome to describe?

Another aspect of this is the DECT NR+ non cellular addition to 5G, If wirepass(bluetooth phy) is not supported but Wirepas partnered with Nordic to create the DECT NR+ stack on the 9160, how does that work? Does Nordic allow Wirepass to call the shots on Nordic? Why will DECT NR+ like get supported but wirepass(bluetooth phy) not?

Nordic has been a very solid business plan with a very open development plan, imho, but wirepass seems to be less so and more propietary? 

Just food for thought, maybe these things are not top of mind?

Cy

[Anne van Rossum]

Nordic cannot force Wirepas to implement their DECT NR+ stack in a way they see fit? I think you might have misunderstood who did what here (I don't know either, but that's my guess).

I do agree that it would be great if Wirepas would support Zephyr. I think that would be for the better for also their ecosystem. All their partners would more easily provide their applications as a Zephyr module.

If you meant this as a question on why there's no open source stack (or no free stack) implemented, that's just a matter of time isn't it? To allow companies to earn money by being the first mover is also part of the technological landscape.