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]

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.

[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?

[RK]

Remote control, so peripheral works fine for me anyway, I did take a look at the s120 out of curiosity because it looks pretty interesting but haven't done anything with it. I'm currently re-doing my dev environment to do Eclipse hosted builds as they're a bit less opaque than Makefiles.

[Leon Schmetz]

Can anybody please tell me where to find an example for the s120 softdevice? I downloaded it but could not find an example app.

Thanks

[Carles]

As Ole Morten often suggests, for information on future and unannounced products please speak to your sales representative.