thingy connect

[Gadreel]

Wow need a bit of help the Thingy worked once did the update and now it is totally useless its a breathing blue light emitter? Nothing can see it MacBook, iPhone and no apparent way to reset? I can make a quick flashing yellow light by turning on with button depressed. Now I'm depressed no other tools that can run natively on Mac? nRFGo installed but still no joy...nothing can see it? iPhone app seems to time out trying to do anything. Help me Obi-wan...

[endnode]

Thingy can always be recovered but ways varies from very easy up to medium hard;) Key is knowledge about what exactly happened: did you attempt to upgrade FW? Over the air or over wired bootloader? If you attempted to flash your (or some random) FW which was untested and caused some hard faults so device is not accessible in "application bootloader (DFU)" mode then you would need to flash it over SWD (JTAG), typically by SEGGER J-Link or similar HW/SW solution (cheapest and most proven is SEGGER J-Link OB which is on every nRF5x DK board, costs ~$40 and can flash any Nordic target through various SW tools compatible with Win/Mac/Linux platforms...)

[mon2]

devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../

[Bjørn Kvaale]

Like Endnode asks below, how did you perform the FW update?

[Gadreel]

I performed the firmware update via the iOS app on iPhone. That seemed to have worked

I have been able to connect to the the Thingy again with iOS app on the iPhone. I cannot confirm that what I am going to mention was the actual fix with 100% confidence, but all I know is now the device is working fine.

Anyway, after the device seems to have "gone dark" after the FW update. I tried to see the device with another app on the iPhone called LightBlue Explorer LE that I already had on my iPhone before getting the Thingy device and app. Which this app could actually see the device but obviously could not interact with it. Anyway, in my attempts to get the Thingy back I uninstalled both the Thingy iOS app and LightBlue Explorer LE. I then only re-installed the Thingy iOS app and the device started working again. I cannot confirm but is it possible the LightBlue app was causing some type of conflict? So no need to flash FW etc. I am moving on at this point evaluating the device. I even used an Android tablet and have successfully connected to the Thingy with the Android app.

Thx for helping me out! Steve

[endnode]

So it's more like your Apple device and app problem... If something advertises connectable ADV_XXX packets it should be possible to connect to it. Have you tried Nordic's nRF Connect app (which seems to be considered as one of the best general BLE debugging/testing apps out there, at least on Android it has no competition)? Also if something advertises it cannot be called "going dark":)