iBeacon - Production Programming and Configuration

[Dan]

Okay, noob alert. I am designing a product that requires a simple iBeacon (redundant?). I have this hardware on my bench: nRF51822 Bluetooth Smart Beacon Kit and downloaded documentation; 2x nRF51 Dongle; nRF52 Development kit.

I would like to copy the nRF51822 beacon reference design (hardware). But can anyone please help me figure out how to program the chip with a new design - that is, fresh chips, never been programmed. Related issue - I cannot connect to the nRF51822 beacon using the "Nordic Beacon" app on my iPhone. The beacon is operating - flashing the purple LED color every few seconds. Thanks in advance -

[Øyvind Karlsen]

Hi,

See this blogpost, on using the 6-pin tag header to program the beacon kit.

Best regards,

Øyvind

[Dan]

thanks, I have that cable now. But I can't compile the example project. I am using Kyle uVision and it isn't finding core_cmInstr.h ("no such file or directory"). I have googled and can't figure this out. The library file does exist in the folder structure. Why doesn't it find this file? I did see something posted that stated that some project was not compatible with Kyle tools. I think I'm close, I just need to be able to program this beacon board with new values. Can anyone help me compile this thing? Thank you.