PC-BLE-Driver support for SoftDevice 140

[alex.barteau]

My understanding is that the nRF52840, which is the only nordic device to support the long range bluetooth physical layer. Additionally this chip requires SoftDevices 140 for long range support.

What is the timeline to bring SoftDevice140 into the pc-ble-driver? And how long after that to to bring support into pc-ble-driver-py and -js?

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi,

I cannot give any exact dates, but we are working on support for s140 softdevice. This should be available within a few months. It should not take long from release in pc-ble-driver to the -py and -js bindings are updated, as these are used by our development tools. 

Best regards,
Jørgen

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

There is no stable release with support for s140 yet. You can follow the developement in the feature/v6-upgrade branch on GitHub.

[Bhavesh Shah]

Thank you Jorgen for your reply. I am successfully able to use those .hex files from v6-upgrade branch for nrf52840 preview development kit. It worked after nRF Connect updated its firmware to latest connectivity firmware.

I want to do the same functionality for FENSTEL EV-BT840F board which have same nRF52840 MCU. I am able to load the same connectivity firmware to EV-BT840F board.

My question is EV-BT840F has CP210x UART Bridge on their UART. Do I have to do any changes in pc-ble-driver-py code to make it work with this board?

It would be a great help if there are some reference work, where pc-ble-driver is used in chip like FENSTEL BT8xx chip