RE: How to flash softdevice s130 and SDK 11 on smart beacon kit

Revo — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 09:40:35 GMT

Thanks but i figured out to have the beacon rev 1, so i can't flash them, i will use the old ones! Thanks however!

RE: How to flash softdevice s130 and SDK 11 on smart beacon kit

Stefan Birnir Sverrisson — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 09:35:07 GMT

Hi Revo

Sorry for the very late response.

When using BLE, you must use both softdevice and an application that matches with that particular softdevice. The compatibility of nRF51, different softdevices and SDKs is listed in the nRF51 compatibility matrix. To see what revision of the nRF51 your beacon kit has, look at the beacon kit page on infocenter

For example if you have becon kit 1.3.0, it apparently has third revision nRF51 on board. To run SDK 11 BLE example on the beacon kit, you first flash the s130_nrf51_2.0.0_softdevice.hex file, then you flash any BLE application from SDK 11.0.0, e.g. the \nRF5_SDK_11.0.0_89a8197\examples\ble_peripheral\ble_app_beacon\hex\ble_app_beacon_s130_pca20006.hex, which should work out of the box.

As you can see in the table on the beacon page, Beacon firmware 1.1.1 is only compatible with S110 7.1.0/7.3.0 softdevice, so beacon firmware 1.1.1 does not work out of the box with more recent softdevices.

If you are getting errors when compiling the Beacon firmware 1.1.1, that is not as expected. Are you sure you have the toolchain updated as recommended in the blog post? If using Keil, you should be compiling the \nRF51822 Beacon v1.1.1\Source Code\nrf51_beacon\ble_app_beacon\pca20006\s110\arm\ble_app_beacon_s110_pca20006.uvprojx. What errors are you seeing?