How does 'Solar Sensor Beacon' example work without softdevice?

RE: How does 'Solar Sensor Beacon' example work without softdevice?

RK — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 05:10:06 GMT

Right there in the VERY FIRST LINE of the readme for the solar beacon link you sent it says

Bluetooth Low Energy based beacon implementation with sensors for the nRF52. Works with the nRF52 (tested), but is likely to work for the nRF51 as well (not tested). Power performance is, however, not expected to be as good for the nRF51.

so you could have answered either or both of your own questions quite easily

RE: How does 'Solar Sensor Beacon' example work without softdevice?

nordicdev — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 05:06:16 GMT

Hi RK, thanks for the reply. Can this be done only in the nRF52 or can this be run in nRF51 as well?

RE: How does 'Solar Sensor Beacon' example work without softdevice?

RK — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 05:05:06 GMT

You can just read the code. Since beacons only send advertising packets which are trivially simple, it uses the radio directly.