Questions about nrf51822 beacon kit sdk

[Francesca]

Hi! I'm trying to work with the beacon kit, but I have some confusion about which type of sdk I can use because with some example that I have found it doesn't work. Besides, sometimes the example is for another target, then i try to change it but when i load the code, keil tells me that it can't find the device. Thanks for the help.

[Hung Bui]

Hi Francesca,

I just tested here and found that the smart beacon firmware package nRF51822-BK-FW v1.1.1 doesn't support gcc out of the box. There is a makefile in the example project for gcc but the file was really broken.

I did some fixes and tested with PCA20006 v1.2 board and it worked here. You can find the project in the attachment.

If you want to use nRF5 SDK you can try with nRF5 v11 with the example at \examples\ble_peripheral\ble_app_beacon\pca20006 . But you need to check and make sure you have revision 3 chip. You can find the revision by reading the laser marking on top of the chip and compare with the compatibility matrix.

s110_nrf51822_7.1.0_softdevice.hex

nrf51422_xxac_s110.hex

nRF51822 Beacon v1.1_GCC.zip

Include.zip

[Francesca]

Thank you for your help :) Now I can compile it, but it seems that it doesn't advertise! I put the project inside the folder that I have download from the tutorial, otherwise it couldn't find some headers. There's somenthing I am missing? My chip has revision 1.0.0 Sorry but it is my first application :)

[Hung Bui]

Hi Francesca,

Have you flashed the softdevive ? Could you try to flash both the softdevice and the application hex that I updated in the Answer ?

Do you have a nRF5 DK Development Kit beside the beacon kit ? If you do, please start your development with the DK and the nRF5 SDK.

[Francesca]

Yes I have flashed the softdevice and I have a nrf51 DK. With the hex that you have updated the beacon advertises, can you give me the project for this?

[Hung Bui]

The hex file was compiled from the source I provide. Could be smth wrong with your toolchain or the library in your SDK folder. I have updated the Answer with the .zip file to my whole project. Note that the makefile.windows has updated to match with the gcc version on my PC.

I would suggest you to start development here.

[Francesca]

If I compile your project I find again the same error that I told you at the beginning "cannot open source input file core_cm0.h, no such file or directory" and in the code the error is at this line "#include "softdevice_handler.h""