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

[Hung Bui]

Hi Francesca,

It's pretty strange, because in the makefile in nRF51822 Beacon v1.1.1\Source Code\nrf51_beacon\ble_app_beacon\pca20006\s110\armgcc there is an include path to: INC_PATHS += -I../../../../../components/toolchain/gcc The file should be included.

Did you use the makefile provided in the .zip I provided? And you should call make with "all" pararameter ("make all")