Setup and environment to connect PCA10040 with Linux based system

[ashish8178]

Hi all,

I am using a linux based board and wanted to support BLE5.0 on that board. PCA10040 is connected with My board through UART. Please forgive me for these basic doubts. 

I have doubt regarding these things. 

1) If I need to send some command from my linux board to nRF52832, how can I make communication and what will be frame format?

2) Will it be possible to flash the HEX file from My board via some command? Currently, I am flashing firmware on the device with the help of nRFGO Studio.

3) If I want to store some profile on BLE device, Can I send some commands from my Linux board? 

Thanks,

Ashish Agrawal 

[run_ar]

1) What firmware have you programmed to the pca10040?

2) You could also use nRFjprog which is a command line tool

3) If you use our serialization project you can do this. But that also means you need handle all events on the linux board.

Based on your questions, maybe you should consider looking at using the zephyr project so you get an LE controller that ou can controll from the BlueZ (Linux bluetooth stack)?

[ashish8178]

I am runnning nRF5_SDK_11.0.0_89a8197 on this. Currently I am running some example image from peripheral.

I am using linux boundary device(nitrogen 6x). What will be best suitable Module for this board?

In my use case, my linux board should be able to manage all the events. 

[run_ar]

I think I would switch to the zephyr project as suggested below and use the native bluez host with the zephyr controller.

[ashish8178]

I am actually using yocto based solution on which I am connecting 10400 with UART. If I just send Echo command over Echo, I am no able to see any response. What can be the possible reason? 

[ashish8178]

as pca10400 support communication through UART, Can I send Some sample command to PCA10400 via uart from linux.  what can be frame format for this? 

[run_ar]

If you are using the ble_app_uart example this will simply forward what it receives on uart to the connected ble device over uart. The other way it will forward what it receives on the ble uart service to the uart interface. unfortunately you cannot control ble functionality this way.

If you are looking at our serialization solution you can find the documentation for it here.