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?

[RK]

Yep - that's why I highlighted it. It's still beta right now, perhaps the memory usage will come down. I agree that in general you need MORE RAM for a central. You can be creative and use unused flash to store more static data, and remember that 10kB of RAM the softdevice is using does contain a lot of data you don't have to store.

Welcome back from the dark side. I fiddled about with TI as well. I've been so impressed by Nordic's dev kit, support for gcc and the quality of the documentation I would never go back.