To which boards nRF cloud demo application can be downloaded?

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Hello, 
 I was trying to connect my boards to nRF Cloud to evaluate it. Setting up Gateway on the phone and on the web at nrfcloud.com was rather easy (just following getting started guide). I have tried downloading sample code to Seeed Tiny BLE and nRF51822-mKIT, but I was not able to discover BLE device. Both have nRF51822 on them. The question is which boards are supported (I could not find this info in the getting started document)? To which boards I can download nRF Cloud demo application? 
 Best regards, Goran

Bjørn Kvaale · Answer

Hi Goran, 
 If you take a look at the nRF cloud getting started guide , you'll notice in Chapter 4 it says that you need an nRF51 or nRF52 dev kit. I have double checked with someone else & the nRF51 & nRF52832 DKs & the nRF52840 PDK should work out of the box with nrf cloud. Are you using the nrf cloud gateway app for Android or iOS? When you say "discover BLE device", does that mean you can't discover the BLE device on the smartphone app? Most likely you need one of the kits I mention above to get nrf cloud to work because the demo FW application for the nrf5x SoC was written for one of these dev kits. 
 If you followed the getting started guide correctly, my guess is that these two module boards you have are not supported & will not work out of the box. 
 Update: I believe it should be possible to run any BLE peripheral SDK example on your peripheral device (i.e. one of your two nrf51 modules) & you should still be able to connect to the central gateway device (e.g. nrf connect gateway smartphone application). 
 Kind Regards, 
 Bj&oslash;rn Kvaale

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