BLE Advertising, a beginner's tutorial

[Chocol8]

Hello everyone,

Lately I have been struggling while trying to run "BLE Advertising, a beginner's tutorial". My hardware consists of NRF51822 and PCA1000 dongle. I use SDK_11.0.0 and the example provided at github github.com/.../nrf51-ble-tutorial-advertising . I copy the folder "nrf5x-ble-tutorial-advertising" to "your_SDK_folder\examples\ble_peripheral". main.c file is found in the folder "your_SDK_folder\examples\ble_peripheral\nrf5x-ble-tutorial-advertising" like in tutorial said.

After that I change memory options to this:

Keil compiles it without errors or warnings:

Lastly, Master Control Panel can not find my "HelloWorld" device:

Moreover, I have tried the modified BLE_UART application of my colegue 's with the same tools and the device was found by the Master Conrol Panel software.

Any ideas what may be causing the problem? I would appreciate your help.

...EDITED:

While debugging the code stucks at this point:

[MartinBL]

Can you try configuring the RAM and ROM settings like this:

Your settings doesn't match the Softdevice you should use which is S130 V2 settings.

[Chocol8]

Thank you very much, it works now! That was ab inattentive mistake by me... Could you tell me is there any way to decode what does an error mean using err_code,line_num, p_file_name?

[MartinBL]

Happy to help.

In general you should go to the file pointed to by p_file_name and look at line 'line_num'. There you will usually see a call to APP_ERROR_CHECK(error_code). Then just above that there is code looking something like this:

error_code = some_function();

Now go to the declaration of some_function() in the header files or search for the function at infocenter.nordicsemi.com to find out what the error means.

[Chocol8]

Thank you once again, Martin!