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Quickest and Easiest nRF52x Development for key fob

Hi all,

I'm completely new to wireless connectivity development and I am looking to use a nRF52832 module for simply communicating button presses between a power optimized coin cell key fob peripheral device and a central base station. The base station module will also allow command/control via a peripheral smartphone like a ‘virtual keyfob’.

I've narrowed down possible module suppliers to Laird who provides their own suite of dev kits, development support, firmware, set of example apps, ect. However, Nordic has its own set of dev kits, example software, ect. which doesn't look like they're easily compatible since Laird's stack is programmed with smartBASIC.

For such a simple application, can anyone with experience with Laird, Rigado, or wireless remote development in general comment on the pros/cons of of the Softdevice stack vs smartBASIC stack; essentially which path may be quicker/intuitive for a key fob remote application?

I should also mention that in the future, more complex features may be implemented such as BL5 mesh.

Any advice is appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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