nRF51822 won't connect via nRFconnect

[phil4g]

I am working with the nRF51 (PCA100028) dev kit and the nRF51822 beacon to monitor the RSSI of the beacon via the nRF51. To do so, I installed nRFconnect and connected the board to the computer and it seems to be working just fine. The problem is that the beacon that appears in the discovered device won't connect. The connection to the device gets timed out even though the battery is in place and the beacon's led flashes. The nRF51 can connect to another computer in the room, but not the beacon.

Is there something I am doing wrong ?

I am working with Windows 7 on a virtual machine on Mac OS X 10.11.2

Thanks

[Artucas]

It is absolutely normal that you can't connect to the beacon. Normally, beacons are designed just to transmit advertising packets to the world ant that's pretty much it. They are not designed to be connectable/configurable. However you can easily modify the beacon example and make it connectable, but as as far as i remember, Nordics beacon example was just for transmitting advertising packets. You can check another examples to see how to connect to the device, for example ble_app_hrs example provided by Nordic.See setup for example location.