Powering up the nRF51822

[chandrashekar]

Hi 

I am a beginner to BLE based products, i bought the nRF51822 devices hoping to create a mesh network. The problem is i have got the development boards but i am not able to power up the devices, do they require an extra peripheral or a board to make them work. Please do help me as this may sound silly but can't help as i am an beginner 

[Martin Lesund]

Hi Chandrashekar,

 I would recommend that you check out the links in this thread to get you started.

What development boards are you using? Are you using the official Nordic nRF51 DK?

 

Note that Mesh support for nRF51-series has been dropped. (source)

[chandrashekar]

Hi Martin 

Thanks for the support 

I am using the nRF51822 development model. I have ordered the nRF51822 BLE4.0 Development Board - Bluetooth Evaluation/ Development Kit 

I have a confusion of how to connect and debug the nRF51822 to make it work in a mesh 

I have three nRF51822 development models, do i require 3 nRF51822 BLE 4.0 development board - bluetooth evaluation kits to configure and make the enRF51822 models to work in the mesh network

[Martin Lesund]

Hi Chandrashekar,

 As said in last post, the nRF51-series has been dropped for Mesh.

   I would recommend you to get the nRF52 DK instead and read through the Getting Started documentation.

There are also several good devzone threads about how to make a mesh network as well.