How to setup nRF Beacon with Eddystone Service

RE: How to setup nRF Beacon with Eddystone Service

Brendan PG Ambayan — Sat, 18 Nov 2017 12:28:47 GMT

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.

RE: How to setup nRF Beacon with Eddystone Service

Hung Bui — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 12:21:48 GMT

@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.

RE: How to setup nRF Beacon with Eddystone Service

Roger Clark — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 09:20:05 GMT

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"