Running basic tutorial on custom breakout board

[Justin]

Hello,

What changes need to be made to the following tutorial to enable basic advertising with the Rigado BMD-300 on a custom board breakout board?

devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../

I've ripped out everything to do with the LEDs and buttons, but I'm still not seeing any advertising data with my custom board.

CONTEXT:

• Verified the code works on the Rigado BMD-300 Series Evaluation Kit.
• Verified a basic main.c can run on my custom board with a BMD-300.
• I'm initializing the clocks with this: APP_TIMER_INIT(APP_TIMER_PRESCALER, APP_TIMER_OP_QUEUE_SIZE, false);
• I have also gone through the following blog post: rigado.zendesk.com/.../225674668-Example-files-will-not-run-on-my-hardware-but-do-on-the-Eval-board-

[Daniel Wang]

does your custom board have an external 32 kHz crystal?

[AmbystomaLabs]

I concur with Daniel, you will need to provide more specifics about your custom board in order for anyone to assist. The basic beacon example in the sdk will work with the minimum hardware and should also work on your board. If possible post your schematic.

[Justin]

Thanks for your replies! I've edited my post to reflect your questions!

[Daniel Wang]

You don't have an external 32 MHz crystal?? You need to have an external 32 MHz crystal to run BLE applications. The external 32 kHz crystal is optional and gives lower power consumption, but the external 32 MHz crystal is mandatory for BLE.

[AmbystomaLabs]

I think I see some of the confusion, when you say custom board you mean a sort of break out board for the Rigado BMD-300. Then the pins we see above are actually the pinouts from the Rigado module.

I would suspect you are not setting up the RTC correctly or not initializing the SD correctly (they go hand in hand). Also possible that you are using the wrong version of SD or wrong memory settings during compile for your app.

Is the Rigado visible via nRFgo Studio?