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]

Good to hear, thanks RK.

I suppose one could do something super insane and keep non-volatile storage with both SoftDevice binaries and implement some form of a bootloader which dynamically switches between roles by programming the different SoftDevice... but that would introduce a TON of latency between role switches.

I'll post a new question asking if anybody knows of plans to support role switching. Marking your answer as correct, but do you mind if I ask what your product application is?