BLE AoA DF Beacon incompatible with Broadcast Sink

RE: BLE AoA DF Beacon incompatible with Broadcast Sink

SwRa — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 13:53:06 GMT

Hello,

Sorry for not getting back to you sooner. Enabling BT_LL_SW_SPLIT pulls the zephyr controller, which is why it fails.. AoA should be integrated using the SoftDevice Controller (SDC only supports AOA Tx) for this to work (in theory it should work, but we have not tested this before). and for that, you will need to add the correct configs for both the application and network core to make this work.I would recommend to start with making an AOA advertiser for the kit with SDC and test that before trying to do the full integration.

Best Regards,

Swathy

RE: BLE AoA DF Beacon incompatible with Broadcast Sink

Ivaylo Ivanov — Fri, 27 Sep 2024 09:44:33 GMT

Hello,
I hope you have not forgotten about us, since the project is currently on hold till we can solve this problem?

RE: BLE AoA DF Beacon incompatible with Broadcast Sink

SwRa — Tue, 23 Jul 2024 12:09:28 GMT

Hello,

Sorry for not responding back earlier.. It seems that softdevice controller also supports direction finding from vesrion v2.0.0 of nrf Connect SDK (The SDC only supports transmitter feature so no receiver): docs.nordicsemi.com/.../README.html. I will need to check if both can work together on the audio DK.. I will check this and get back to you.

Regards,

Swathy

RE: BLE AoA DF Beacon incompatible with Broadcast Sink

Ivaylo Ivanov — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 14:57:39 GMT

Is this incompatibility of the two functionalities a hardware incompatibility (the hardware itself not being able to do both things simultaneously) or is it a limitation on software/driver level, opening up some sort of possibility to adapt one of the two functionalities to work with the other controller link layer?

RE: BLE AoA DF Beacon incompatible with Broadcast Sink

SwRa — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 14:21:05 GMT

Hello,

Unfortunately, it is not possible to use these two samples together. The direction finding uses the zephyr controller, whereas the audio sample uses softdevice controller and doesn't support the features of direction finding.

Regards,

Swathy