is it possible to connect nrf52 thingy to another nrf52 soc peer to peer?

[sam]

can i connect iot sensor node nrf52 thingy to another nrf52 soc via ble or IEEE 802.15.4 and access it on cloud

[Krzysztof Loska]

Hi,

You asked just in time. Recently we released Thread/Bluetooth Low Energy dynamic multiprotocol solution that allows for concurrent operation of Thread and Bluetooth Low Energy. As a part of our demo we connected nRF52 Thingy to a cloud through Thread/Bluetooth Low Energy multiprotocol router. See video in this blog post for details. So definitely, it is possible :).

Due to nature of Thread/Bluetooth Low Energy dynamic multiprotocol solution, using the Bluetooth Low Energy Central role is ineffective and thus not recommended. As a result in our demo Thread/Bluetooth Low Energy multiprotocol router is in Bluetooth Low Energy Peripheral role, and nRF52 Thingy is in Bluetooth Low Energy Central role. So far an official firmware for nRF52 Thingy supports only Bluetooth Low Energy Peripheral role (as Thingy is mainly intended to work with smartphones which are usually Centrals), so we made some changes in nRF52 Thingy firmware, just for the purpose of the demo, to make it work as described. But this modified firmware was not published yet.

[lalit-tmt]

Hi Krzysztof Loska ,

We are trying to place thingy52 in an existing thread coap client/server setup. In the existing setup we have 2 coap clients and 1 coap server. we would like to add thingy 52 to this existing setup and transmit the thingy52 sensor data to the cloud using MQTT.

But how do we add thingy52 into the setup.

The coap clients are running simple_coap_client code, and coap server is running simple_coap_server code.