NRF52 and beacon ( NRF51) example

RE: NRF52 and beacon ( NRF51) example

Jørgen Holmefjord — Thu, 27 Apr 2017 12:02:57 GMT

You can use nRF Connect to scan for advertising devices. This will also show all other BLE devices, in addition to Beacons. We do not provide any Beacon-specific applications for PC, but there are some older Beacon applications available for iOS and Android:

An alternative if you want to get advertising data on UART, is to setup one of the central examples in the SDK to forward the advertising packets to the PC using UART. You can also use pc-ble-driver, which are available in C/C++, Python, and Node.JS versions, to make your own Beacon scanner application using a serialized nRF5x device. You can find examples of how to use the driver in the GitHub repositories.

Best regards,

Jørgen

RE: NRF52 and beacon ( NRF51) example

Usman Rashid — Wed, 26 Apr 2017 12:49:03 GMT

I mean that is there any beacon and NRF52 software available in which NRF52 is getting broadcast messages of the beacon and I can see those messages on my computer screen.

Just like I can see RSSI values on the andriod or IOS app. Is there any software or .hex file for NRF52 so that NRF52 just recevies broadcast messages from beacon and forward it to the PC and can be seen using putty for instance ?

RE: NRF52 and beacon ( NRF51) example

endnode — Mon, 24 Apr 2017 20:02:58 GMT

Hi Usman, term "beacons" is normally used for non-connectable broadcasting BLE devices. Can you be more specific what do you expect from this "ready made" application?