Send Data from nrf51-dk to Esp8266

[June1993]

Hi all Nordic developers,

I am currently working on nrf51 to scan all the nearby beacon and then i wish to send the data to the esp8266. I already able to scan all the beacon, and it's working. However, i face difficulties to push the scan result to the ESP8266. Is it possible to do that? If yes, is that any method, or suggestions to do that??

[Einar Thorsrud]

Am I correct to assume that the nRF51 and the ESP8266 is on the same board? If so, it should be possible for them to communicate using SPI, I2C or UART, as all are supported by both devices.

[June1993]

Hi, thank you for the answer.I try the solution and i am confusing on the coding to transmit the scan result(eg. Peripheral Address and Rssi) to the UART Terminal automatically.Is there any example code for this??

[Einar Thorsrud]

There is no example that I am aware of that demonstrates how to forward scan results over UART, but it should be fairly straight forward. You can take a central example from the SDK (such as the BLE Heart Rate Collector Example). There you can see the handling of advertising events (BLE_GAP_EVT_ADV_REPORT). You could modify the code there to either parse and forward parts of the advertising data via some serial interface to the other chip, or you can transfer the whole thing raw. If you want to start with UART and a terminal, you may also want to look at the UART Example for how to do that.