SoftDevice Central Role Support

[Jonathan Gordon]

Is there a plan to support the BLE central role in the software stack?

As it is now, I absolutely cannot use the nRF51822 since the S110 stack does not support operating as a BLE central. However, I really like Nordic's support for open toolchains.

If support for this is planned, is there any kind of super-unofficial schedule for when that would be?

Thanks

[RK]

Have you looked at the S120 softdevice which does exactly that?

[Jonathan Gordon]

Oh, beautiful! It looks like this was announced in the last week or two haha. Thanks for pointing this out.

Now from having skimmed the information for all of 5 minutes, it doesn't look like the S120 software stack supports both roles, just central and observer. That means you could not do any switching between central and peripheral to allow multi-hop BLE networks like is possible with the cc2540.

Am I correct about that?