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Timer and Multirole for PCA20006

Hello, I have implemented the code below for my project based on switching central and peripheral role in S130. The code works fine on the Devkit PCA10028 but on porting it to PCA20006 I noticed some bugs in the final steps.

  • Without line 195 and 271 to 310 everything seems to work well on the Beacon, the LED is toggling in the right frequency. However after some time the frequency seems to roughly double. I cannot solidly quantify this observation.
  • Adding the above lines, the beacon does not switch on any LED at all. Only in debug mode the LEDs are switched on and the timer handler is entered. It seems there is a problem with my timer interrupt handling, but I dont know what.
  • I Am unsure if this code will be capable of handling 120 interacting nodes (well, mostly only up to 20 should be in close proximity)

Does anybody have an idea what could be my problem when porting to PCA20006? I am also grateful for any ideas to improve the code.

edit1: attached file instead of code: Corrected line numbers to reflect recent changes, as I corrected functionality. edit2: For completness I attached to whole (ecplise) project folder. Putting it into /central_and_peripheral/experimental/ should work. The makefile is currently set for PCA20006.

edit2: attached updated code

edit3: final code

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  • So, I did some more testing. It turned out, that it was simply the battery that was depleted. Using a new one everything worked fine. Only problem now is, that even the new one seems to be depleted after approx. 8h of testing. I deduce this, as the LEDs are now much weaker than at the start, barely visible and I get resets again.

    I have updated my latest code above but I cannot test the power consumption on the DK. If you have any idea, what is eating my capacity i would be glad. I will try to find something in this thread in the meantime.

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  • So, I did some more testing. It turned out, that it was simply the battery that was depleted. Using a new one everything worked fine. Only problem now is, that even the new one seems to be depleted after approx. 8h of testing. I deduce this, as the LEDs are now much weaker than at the start, barely visible and I get resets again.

    I have updated my latest code above but I cannot test the power consumption on the DK. If you have any idea, what is eating my capacity i would be glad. I will try to find something in this thread in the meantime.

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