How to test IR sensor with nRF52832?

[anuragshukla]

I have nRF52832 as my development kit. Currently I am testing various ble peripherals i.e Blinky , beacon etc. Now I have to test IR sensor with the Development kit .I aim to use IR sensor as obstacle avoider. However I have very less idea of how to proceed with this. I have Keil (licenced version). Kindly help with both transmission and reception of IR signal .

Note: I am very new to this platform , just started with BLE and therefore currently testing all the examples. 
Please provide a simplified solution .

[karthikeyan]

hi,

  In the sdk there will be twi_scanner and twi_sensor examples. if you want your ir sensor work with i2c you can see those examples. if you want it in adc you can see saadc example.

cheers

karthikeyan

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Please provide details on what IR sensor you are using. If you search DevZone, there should be some posts about this, at least for nRF51 series. If you are having issues, please post details on what you have tried, and what is not working.

[anuragshukla]

Hi Jorgen
MH sensor series - Flying Fish IR sensor module FC -51. I am trying to get the data from IR sensor via BLE device ( in this case nRF52832) and transfer it using UART to other divice. I am using SDK14.2.

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Please post the code you have written to interface the sensor, and explain what is not working. Nobody here is going to write the firmware for your sensor for you, we can only help you find solutions to your issues.

[anuragshukla]

I am not allowed to share my code . In a simple way , I just want to know how to check status of P0.26(whether it is high or low) . I am sending a signal to that pin , I just want to confirm that whether that pin is receiving or not thats it

[Nijat]

I also have been working on IR in these time and found that there are very less discussion about IR on nrf5x devices. Also the Nordic never provided an IR example according to a reply from Nordic technical support. Why ? Because the IR is very mature technology used for many years that the IR module is so easy to be driven. That is what an Embedded system engineer told me. I am not the expert, of course it is not so easy for me as they told, so I cannot tell you the details. But you can follow the IR protocol and write a driver for your device. They(engineers) told me IR module is the easiest device to be driven. You can search some key words like "infrared(or IR) solution for arm architecture", "infrared(or IR) solution for MCUs of the STM32" or "mbed IR solution". The nrf5x is ARM architecture and they will use the same protocol.