I tried two different applications in BT fundamentals, the solution to Lesson 3, Exercise 1 and the solution to Lesson 4, Exercise 1. Both show "Advertising successfully started" on the terminal, but I can't see the Nordic_peripheral on a central. I tried nRF Connect on my phone and laptop but don't see the advertisements. Does the Development Kit need an external BLE antenna?
Hi,
Does the Development Kit need an external BLE antenna?
No. The nRF52833 DK comes with a PCB antenna on the board, and do not need any external antenna.
Can you confirm that you opened the project, added a build configuration for the nrf52833/nrf52833 target, built it, and successfully flashed the nRF52833 DK?
When flashing the board, it is typically best to do an "erase and flash", which you get for instance if you click the icon that appears when you hover the "Flash" option of the nRF Connect for VS Code extension:
Further, you might experience sometimes that a reset of the board is necessary after having flashed it. That should not be the issue when you do see the correct log output from the board, though, so that part is a bit strange.
What version of nRF Connect SDK are you on?
Have BLE on the nRF52833 DK previously worked with other samples, for instance from the SDK?
Do you have other DKs (nRF52833 or otherwise) which you can test, to see if the issue is specific to the particular nRF52833 DK?
Regards,
Terje
Hi,
Does the Development Kit need an external BLE antenna?
No. The nRF52833 DK comes with a PCB antenna on the board, and do not need any external antenna.
Can you confirm that you opened the project, added a build configuration for the nrf52833/nrf52833 target, built it, and successfully flashed the nRF52833 DK?
When flashing the board, it is typically best to do an "erase and flash", which you get for instance if you click the icon that appears when you hover the "Flash" option of the nRF Connect for VS Code extension:
Further, you might experience sometimes that a reset of the board is necessary after having flashed it. That should not be the issue when you do see the correct log output from the board, though, so that part is a bit strange.
What version of nRF Connect SDK are you on?
Have BLE on the nRF52833 DK previously worked with other samples, for instance from the SDK?
Do you have other DKs (nRF52833 or otherwise) which you can test, to see if the issue is specific to the particular nRF52833 DK?
Regards,
Terje
