iBeacon - Production Programming and Configuration

RE: iBeacon - Production Programming and Configuration

Dan — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 18:47:16 GMT

I've looked at the beacon under a microscope and see this: N51822 CFACA0 I think this means the IC revision is 3? Currently I am using Keil uVision, and using nRFgo Studio to program the softdevice s110_nrf51822_7.1.0_softdevice.hex. Is that the correct version for this IC? I also have a USB dongle, which has a nRF51422 on it, so I guess I can't use this with the beacon firmware? I'm really in a pinch here, this is my only hope to with this customer but wow it's frustrating. It seems that there are specific combinations of FW and HW which are not easy to decipher. I need someone to point me to EXACTLY the tools I need to get this thing to work - if anyone really knows. The end game here is to program a specific UUID and major/minor values for a customer demo. Thanks in advance.

RE: iBeacon - Production Programming and Configuration

Dan — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 16:26:27 GMT

Thank you. I have seen that compatibility matrix but have no idea how to interpret it. Are there some instructions somewhere for how to determine the revisions of the chip and the code and the tools?

RE: iBeacon - Production Programming and Configuration

Øyvind Karlsen — Sat, 20 Aug 2016 16:06:57 GMT

You need to build you the kit you are using, since the beacon is getting quite old you might have one that uses an older revision chip on it. This in turn means that the device might not be compatible with the most recent SDK and SoftDevice. Please see the compatibility matrix.

RE: iBeacon - Production Programming and Configuration

Dan — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 17:29:04 GMT

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.

RE: iBeacon - Production Programming and Configuration

Øyvind Karlsen — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 06:18:59 GMT

Hi,

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

Best regards,

Øyvind

RE: iBeacon - Production Programming and Configuration

Dan — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 02:18:59 GMT

Thanks - using the iPhone app, it doesn't find anything. Nothing. Using the Windows nRF Connect program, it does find it. So I know it's broadcasting. I also see my wife's smart watch, and the iPhone app doesn't see that either. So maybe it's a problem with the "Nordic Beacon" on my phone.

RE: iBeacon - Production Programming and Configuration

Hieu — Tue, 09 Aug 2016 02:13:49 GMT

Regarding the your inability to connect to the beacon, do you mean you cannot scan and find your beacon? I am fairly sure the beacon in the beacon example cannot be connected to. That beacon only broadcast advertising information. (I could be wrong, been a few weeks since I last looked at it).