Enquiry regarding connecting thingy:53 to nrf9160 dk

[Shreya Mahetaliya]

I wanted to know in what ways can I connect thingy:53 to nrf9160 dk via Bluetooth?

I understand that dk has onboard nrf52 and hence thingy:52 could get connected wirelessly with the board but it isn't the same with thingy:53.

I had bought two thingy:52s and a dk long time back. Now when I needed more thingy:52s to work with, I wasn't able to buy them and hence had to go with thingy:53s.

My aim is to be able to connect all the thingys with the dk simultaneously and send their flip data over the cloud and hence I am looking for a way to connect it via Bluetooth (wirelessly) and using debug out or any other wired option.

Thanks!

[Charlie]

Hi,

You can try to run Thingy53 with Bluetooth: Central UART (nordicsemi.com) and nRF52840 on nRF9160DK with Connectivity bridge (nordicsemi.com) which play as Bluetooth: Peripheral UART (nordicsemi.com) role.

Pay attention that the boards are not supported by the samples mentioned, so you may need to do the adaptation, try to get help if you have problem. Good luck!

Best regards,

Charlie

[Shreya Mahetaliya]

Thank you so much for this!

One more thing I would like to confirm, what according to you would be the best course of action for connecting thingy:52s and thingy:53s simultaneously to a DK and then sending their flip data to cloud.
What DK should be used in this case without making it much complicated? Thanks!

[Charlie]

Any DK supporting BLE should work, for example nRF5340DK, nRF52840DK. The complicity is up to your application development on firmware.

[Shreya Mahetaliya]

Then when you say that pay attention that the boards are not supported by the samples mentioned, so you may need to do the adaptation. What do you exactly mean here? 

[Charlie]

For example in Bluetooth: Central UART (nordicsemi.com) sample supported boards, Thingy:53 is not listed, but it is still able to run on the nRF5340 of Thingy:53.