ANTWare II and NRF 52

[Pradeep]

Hi,

I have programmed s212 soft device onto to NRF52 DK and also programmed ant_broadcast\tx application onto the NRF52 DK. The LED is glowing to indicate that TX is happening. NRF52 DK is connected to my laptop using the USB cable.

When I start ANTWare II application, no device is detected by this app. Am I missing something obvious here ?

Is it possible to connect NRF52 DK to ANTWare II app?

Regards, Pradeep

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

See this thread. This also applies to the nRF52.

[Pradeep]

Thanks for the quick response. This thread says that I will have to buy ANTUSB-m (2 to be specific), to set up client and server communication over ANT Protocol through ANTWARE II.

After a lot of searching in the forums and also reading through all the documentation for ANT, I am still not clear as to how do I setup NRF 52 DK for ANT protocol.

My requirement is to transmit few bytes of data from a few slave nodes (upto 5) to a master node, may be one to one connectivity between Master & Slave or through a Mesh Network. I have seen a lot of documentation claiming that this can be achieved, but I am unable to dig out any reference to information as to how to do this using ANT protocol using NRF 52.

I would be of great help if you could point me to the proper information to achieve my goal.

Thanks. Pradeep

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

You don't need ANTWare II to setup client and server communication , this is just a tool to help you test the individual examples. It should work fine to test two devices, one transmitt and one receive, towards each other.

It sounds like what you want is one of the following examples:

• ANT Multi Channels example, which support peer-to-peer communication on up to 15 channels.
• ANT Scan and Forward example, which shows how to implement a mesh network.

[Pradeep]

Both the samples helped me understand how to implement my requirement. Could provide some thoughts on debugging such a set up?

One way I can think of debugging is I may have to connect 4 to 5 slave nodes through JLINK to an IDE such as Keil to test the exchange of messages over ANT.

Is there any other way to debug the exchanges of messages between slave and master nodes. I have read in some blogs that debug messages can be posted to UART, if yes could you provide more information on how to do this?

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

You should be able to add UART interface to your ANT devices, similar to the BLE examples, either using the UART module directly or using the NRF_LOG module. In the ANT+ examples in SDK 12, the logger module is enabled for allowing to test the devices using UART.