Basic Arduino setup with nRF8001 Development Kit

RE: Basic Arduino setup with nRF8001 Development Kit

Ole Morten — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 16:28:45 GMT

I'd be happy if you could accept the answer that you found useful to clear up this question! :-)

RE: Basic Arduino setup with nRF8001 Development Kit

David Edwin — Tue, 04 Mar 2014 10:03:08 GMT

My apologies on this issue. We will be fixing the github release so that it will support the Nordic boards better and work with redbearlab so hopefully we can have a common pin configuration to make it easier for users.

RE: Basic Arduino setup with nRF8001 Development Kit

Will Rust — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 20:12:18 GMT

There we go!

I had been using github.com/.../ble-sdk-arduino and assumed that because this came from one of Nordic Semi's own repos that it would default to their own hardware and not RedBear's. I should have looked at the code before asking.

Thank you very much for your help.

RE: Basic Arduino setup with nRF8001 Development Kit

David Edwin — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:50:49 GMT

You may want to import the latest Arduino code delivered at github.com/.../ble-sdk-arduino

Make sure that you read the readme file in the top level, this will give you the information on the pin connections required for the Nordic Arduino shield.

Open the Serial Monitor window using Tools -> Serial Monitor in the Arduino IDE to receive error and status messages and to send data from the PC to the phone.
Set the line ending option in Serial Monitor to "New Line"
Set the baud rate in the Serial Monitor to "115200 baud"

The pin settings for the Nordic board should be:



/*    Tell the ACI library, the MCU to nRF8001 pin connections.    
The Active pin is optional and can be marked UNUSED    */              

/* See board.h for details REDBEARLAB_SHIELD_V1_1 or BOARD_DEFAULT
*/
aci_state.aci_pins.board_name = BOARD_DEFAULT;  

/* SS for Nordic board, 9 for REDBEARLAB_SHIELD_V1_1  
*/
aci_state.aci_pins.reqn_pin   = SS; 

/* 3 for Nordic board, 8 for REDBEARLAB_SHIELD_V1_1    
*/
aci_state.aci_pins.rdyn_pin   = 3; 

aci_state.aci_pins.mosi_pin   = MOSI;    
aci_state.aci_pins.miso_pin   = MISO;    
aci_state.aci_pins.sck_pin    = SCK;        

aci_state.aci_pins.spi_clock_divider          = SPI_CLOCK_DIV8;

/* 4 for Nordic board, UNUSED for REDBEARLAB_SHIELD_V1_1
*/
aci_state.aci_pins.reset_pin     = 4;

aci_state.aci_pins.active_pin                  = UNUSED;   
aci_state.aci_pins.optional_chip_sel_pin = UNUSED;