Adding Threads to Bluetooth

[AMarch01]

I have the nrf52840 DK and I am trying out the simple BLE beacon example. I am aware this isn't a part of the Nordic official examples, but it is an extremely simple Bluetooth example, and I thought I would toy with it a bit. 
My question has to do with how to add an additional thread to the main Bluetooth thread. 

• Is creating another thread a generally bad idea? 
• Is there a known proper method for adding threads to a Bluetooth subsystem?

Maybe something that dumps out periodic messages to a serial port, using printk()?

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[Einar Thorsrud]

Hi,

By thread, you mean Zephyr RTOS threads? If so, that is not a bad idea. There is no problem using Bluetooth and multiple threads (in fact the Bluetooth stack itself will add a few threads under the hood). For a basic example of using threads, you can see the Basic thread manipulation sample. I also suggest you have a look at the nRF Connect SDK Fundamentals course.

[AMarch01]

Yeah, I am trying to work through the course while searching for methods of working on low level control of Bluetooth variables.