Can I easily bootload an nRF52832 using a BeagleBone Green Wireless and its built in bluetooth?

RE: Can I easily bootload an nRF52832 using a BeagleBone Green Wireless and its built in bluetooth?

Vidar Berg — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:16:17 GMT

Hello,

Unfortunately, we do not have any offical examples that demonstrates OTA DFU with other Bluetooth stacks such as Bluez, but I found this github project that you might want to check out (not tried it myself): https://github.com/foldedtoad/ota-dfu-python.

Note that Nrfutil and nrf connect desktop use serialized softdevice API to control the softdevice on the connectivity board (serialization). This is why you need a nordic dongle when doing OTA DFU with nrfutil.

RE: Can I easily bootload an nRF52832 using a BeagleBone Green Wireless and its built in bluetooth?

Henry McDonald — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 20:46:07 GMT

This was resolved by editing pc-ble-driver-py/pc-ble-driver/include/common/internal/transport/uart_boost.h to change "io_service" to "io_context" in two locations. Once compiled, I copied the output files over to the python directory, but the application still appears to be searching for a usb connected device to perform the bootloading.

RE: Can I easily bootload an nRF52832 using a BeagleBone Green Wireless and its built in bluetooth?

Henry McDonald — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 19:25:38 GMT

I think I may need to build pc-ble-driver-py to get further with this task, but I'm not able to build it.

I started out using apt-get to install cmake and (if I remember correctly) boost. I ran into problems using these that made me think that boost was too old of a version. I then compiled boost 1.66 from source as well as cmake 3.11 rc1. I deleted the pc-ble-driver-py directory, recloned the repository, and tried to compile again using the latest cmake and boost version. The build fails with the following error:

[ 14%] Building CXX object pc-ble-driver/CMakeFiles/pc_ble_driver_obj_sd_api_v3.dir/src/common/sd_rpc_impl.cpp.o
In file included from /root/pc-ble-driver-py/pc-ble-driver/src/common/sd_rpc_impl.cpp:43:0:
/root/pc-ble-driver-py/pc-ble-driver/include/common/internal/transport/uart_boost.h:100:18: error: ‘io_service’ in namespace ‘boost::asio’ does not name a type
boost::asio::io_service ioService;
^
/root/pc-ble-driver-py/pc-ble-driver/include/common/internal/transport/uart_boost.h:102:18: error: ‘io_service’ in namespace ‘boost::asio’ does not name a type
boost::asio::io_service::work workNotifier;
^
pc-ble-driver/CMakeFiles/pc_ble_driver_obj_sd_api_v3.dir/build.make:387: recipe for target 'pc-ble-driver/CMakeFiles/pc_ble_driver_obj_sd_api_v3.dir/src/common/sd_rpc_impl.cpp.o' failed
make[2]: *** [pc-ble-driver/CMakeFiles/pc_ble_driver_obj_sd_api_v3.dir/src/common/sd_rpc_impl.cpp.o] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:311: recipe for target 'pc-ble-driver/CMakeFiles/pc_ble_driver_obj_sd_api_v3.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [pc-ble-driver/CMakeFiles/pc_ble_driver_obj_sd_api_v3.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:83: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

RE: Can I easily bootload an nRF52832 using a BeagleBone Green Wireless and its built in bluetooth?

Henry McDonald — Mon, 26 Feb 2018 21:37:31 GMT

Little more information...

If I try to run `nrfutil dfu ble -pkg software.zip -ic NRF52` I get error messages:

File "/usr/local/bin/nrfutil", line 11, in <module>
load_entry_point('nrfutil==3.4.0', 'console_scripts', 'nrfutil')()
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 722, in __call__
return self.main(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 697, in main
rv = self.invoke(ctx)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 1066, in invoke
return _process_result(sub_ctx.command.invoke(sub_ctx))
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 895, in invoke
return ctx.invoke(self.callback, **ctx.params)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/click/core.py", line 535, in invoke
return callback(*args, **kwargs)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nrfutil-3.4.0-py2.7.egg/nordicsemi/__main__.py", line 776, in ble
ble_driver_init(conn_ic_id)
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/nrfutil-3.4.0-py2.7.egg/nordicsemi/__main__.py", line 65, in ble_driver_init
from pc_ble_driver_py.ble_driver import BLEDriver, Flasher
File "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pc_ble_driver_py/ble_driver.py", line 105, in <module>
raise RuntimeError("Could not load shared library {} : '{}'.".format(shlib_path, error))
RuntimeError: Could not load shared library /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pc_ble_driver_py/lib/linux/x86_32/libpc_ble_driver_shared_sd_api_v3.so : '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/pc_ble_driver_py/lib/linux/x86_32/libpc_ble_driver_shared_sd_api_v3.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'.

libpc_ble_driver_shared_sd_api_v3.so exists in the specified directory.

I've gone so far as to build boost and pc-ble-driver on my beaglebone, which takes a long time, but I'm now stuck at this point.