How to setup nRF Beacon with Eddystone Service

[bluedevops]

Hi,

i read this post:

devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../

and found the PCA20006 project but i cannot load it to the beacon. I can find proper instructions on how to load a fitting softdevice and my program to the beacon. All "tutorials" using the Nordic Apps and DFU didnt work for me. Maybe i am doinf something terribly wrong but it cant be that hard to just load software to the beacon?

Please help me here!

[Roger Clark]

Can your explain in more detail, what you mean by

"but i cannot load it to the beacon"

I compiled and loaded the experimental Eddystone app onto an nRF51822 QFAA (256k flash 16k RAM) and it worked fine.

What do you use to build the app, and what hardware do you use to download the binary onto the "beacon"

[Hung Bui]

@bluedevops: How you do flash the application on your PCA20006 ? If you simply use DFU to load, the Eddystone example might not work as it requires different softdevice. I don't think you can replace softdevice with the bootloader on PCA20006.

It's better to use a programmer and flash the chip instead. You can have a look here.

[Brendan PG Ambayan]

Hi! I am currently doing my project on BLE beacons. I am using nordic's nrf51822 and waveshare ble400. I am using a blackmagic probe instead of jlink to program it using Arduino IDE. I want to use sandeep's repo (see: github.com/.../ardu...) but I don't know what to do in order for it to work on blackmagic probe. I think his repo is in jlink build. Please help me guys.