RE: A good reference to Softdevices and peripherals?

johananh — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:49:06 GMT

Thanks, I will use these tutorials and see how it goes.

RE: A good reference to Softdevices and peripherals?

Edvin — Tue, 13 Feb 2018 16:01:05 GMT

Hello Johanan,

For the softdevice, there is not a piece of documentation that will explain every function and what it does, other than in the specification on infocenter.

The softdevice contains a lot (!) of functions, many which are only used in corner cases, so I would not worry about learning all of them. Just look up in infocenter if you are wondering what a specific function does.

However, we do have a tutorial page here on DevZone. Especially if you are new to BLE, the 4 tutorials listed under "Bluetooth Low Energy" are particularly useful. The order of the tutorials are not very intuitive since we ported to the new DevZone a couple of weeks ago. You should go through them in the following order:

1: Bluetooth low energy Advertising, a beginners tutorial

2: Bluetooth low energy Services, a beginners tutorial

3: Bluetooth low energy Characteristics. a beginners tutorial

4: Bluetooth low energy central tutorial

Regarding the peripherals, there are a few tutorials on this as well, located under "software development kit" on the tutorial main page, such as the "Application Timer Tutorial".

If you look through this, and then take a look at the example in the SDK, located in

SDK14.2.0\examples\peripheral\pin_change_int,

which is an interrupt example, you are on your way to the timer starting/stopping on pin interrupt scenario that you describe.

Good luck with the development. Let us know if there is anything else that you are missing.

Best regards,

Edvin