nRF52840 Dongle not supported in QuickStart

[jonathanljc]

Hi I am a student exploring on the usage of nRF52840 utilsing Thread communication protocol but i cant seems to get it setup for the configuration.

The documentation is quite tedious and hard to follow as there is many prerequisite to do before hands and im lost.

I tried install the nRF Connect for Desktop for the Quick Start but it shows this as attached in the image. 

Any links or reference or guide youtube will be appreciated. Apart from that, how can i also program the chip itself for development purpose, cause i read from the forum that dongle is not supported in the vscode so im really lost now.

[Einar Thorsrud]

Hi,

The quick start guied does not have support for all of the boards. And importantly, the dogle is not a developmet kit, and does not have an onboard debugger, so it is not well suited as a development platform (unless you have an additional development kit where you do development and debugging or an external debugger). If you are getting into nRF52840 development, I suggest you obtain a development kit instead.

That said, you can develop for the dongle even though it is not supported in quick start. But as it does not have a debugger, you cannot program it directly from VS Code (which is our prefered IDE), but you will need to use nRF Connect Programmer. To get started with development, you need to install the nRF Connect SDK. Also, if you are new to nRF Connect SDK development, I suggest going through nRF Connect SDK Fundamentals.