Some Guidance on moving from Arduino to nRF52840

RE: Some Guidance on moving from Arduino to nRF52840

PhilAJ52 — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 21:14:47 GMT

Thanks Martin will look at the thread you suggest

RE: Some Guidance on moving from Arduino to nRF52840

Martin Lesund — Wed, 25 Apr 2018 12:24:07 GMT

Hi Phil,

I think this thread can help you for your last question.

Also, I don't see why there should be a problem porting that library.

RE: Some Guidance on moving from Arduino to nRF52840

PhilAJ52 — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 15:03:08 GMT

Thank you to all - Butch, Martin and Nguyen

I shall take on the idea of using Eclipse and get the relevant SDks and libraries.

Thanks for info re the BLE Device Id - which we will use as a reference in a back end database.

As for the Infra Red requirement, our application needs to send and receive data over IR.

On the Arduino board we added a small board of our own, with a sender and receiver - which we connected to data pins. We then used a library github here which provided various IR protocols and commands for Encode, Decode, Send and Receive. I was hoping that either a) there would be similar for the Nordic - or maybe b) the library we used could be ported to work on the Nordic. Any further guidance on this greatfully received.

Phil

RE: Some Guidance on moving from Arduino to nRF52840

Martin Lesund — Mon, 23 Apr 2018 14:05:58 GMT

Hi Phil,

(here is a useful thread with useful links)

a) The SDK should give you almost everything you need to develop your application. We have several libraries, drivers and of course lots of examples which you can use as reference and speed up your development process.

b) Need more details.

c) Can be found in the FICR

RE: Some Guidance on moving from Arduino to nRF52840

Nguyen Hoan Hoang — Sun, 22 Apr 2018 02:14:39 GMT

a) The SDK is very complete for BLE. You app can always reconnect to it. You need to rewrite your firmware. It is quite complex. There is however this library that simplifies the development of BLE firmware with Nordic SDK.

Free Eclipse GCC is my IDE of choice

b) None that I know off.

c) You app can always reconnect to it. No Id change unless it is done on purpose.

RE: Some Guidance on moving from Arduino to nRF52840

butch — Sat, 21 Apr 2018 22:25:32 GMT

Have you seen https://github.com/sandeepmistry/arduino-nRF5? It doesn't provide Arduino BLE wrapper. You didn't say what board you are on now, and I don't know on what boards Arduino provides BLE wrapper, if at all. Is there is an Arduino BLE library for your board? Then you might need to port it to NRF52? I cannot vouch for that link, it probably is a minimal implementation.

In my limited experience (I do just a little Arduino, and much NRF52) there is just a little support for Arduino on the NRF52. For example, the NRF52DK and its user manual talks briefly about Arduino headers (that you can add to the back of the board.) And I was just yesterday reading about the Arduino Primo which uses the NRF52, but just went out of support by arduino.org (politics around arduino?) But I suppose you are asking whether you can abandon Arduino?

b) I don't think "Infra Red protocol" defines a standard. You would need to give more detail.

c) the device ID is available and unique (not that it is guaranteed unique, just that it is pseudo-randomly generated at the factory and with very high probability is unique.)