Can I send custom notifications to the nRF beacon app from the nRF51822 beacon?

RE: Can I send custom notifications to the nRF beacon app from the nRF51822 beacon?

Anders Strand — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 07:24:39 GMT

Hi. You will need a needle adapter like this one.

RE: Can I send custom notifications to the nRF beacon app from the nRF51822 beacon?

martin — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 16:24:52 GMT

Good morning Anders,

Thank you for the quick response, I will go ahead and try what you recommended, i saw i need an adapter cable to program the beacon that connects to the "debug out" out of my nRF52 DK? do you which one i need? Ive seen several but im not sure which one i need for sure. Again I have the nRF51822 (beacon) and trying to work with nRF52832 board

RE: Can I send custom notifications to the nRF beacon app from the nRF51822 beacon?

Anders Strand — Tue, 29 Mar 2016 11:14:36 GMT

Hello.

You can customize the beacon packet. If you want to follow the ibeacon standard, you can change two bytes (afaik). You can use this to send some codes.

You can also use normal bluetooth le connections to send data to your phone. Our most basic example for this is the NUS (Nordic Uart Service) examples. We provide a corresponding android and iOS app.

You can also just change your advertising to something completely custom, and scan it with master control panel.

We provide source code for our android app on github, in case you are making your own.

-Anders