Should nRF Beacon app work with nRF52832 on the Arduino Primo?

[DaleScott]

In https://media.digikey.com/pdf/Data%20Sheets/Arduino%20PDFs/A000135_Web.pdf, it says the nRF Beacon app is compatible with nRF51822.

Any reason why it wouldn't work with the nRF52832?

I tried sketch in Example and the nRF Beacon app said "Beacon not Found". I tried the UUID in the sketch and the 4 others available on the app but no luck.

Any hope of getting this to work?

[Einar Thorsrud]

Hi,

I have little experience with Arduino, hopefully someone else can comment on a Arduino-ish solution.

As an alternative, what about just ignoring the fact that it is an Arduino board and treating it as just any other nRF52 and using the beacon example from the normal nRF5 SDK? Note that you will have to replace the company identifier with Apples company identifier to make it detectable for iOS. You can do that by setting the APP_COMPANY_IDENTIFIER to 0x004C in the example main.c file.

[DaleScott]

Einor,

I looked into trying what you suggested. It says to upload the beacon example from:

You can find the source code and the project file of the example in the following folder: <InstallFolder>\examples\ble_peripheral\ble_app_beacon

Where is  <InstallFolder> ???

I guess there is a file somewhere that explains where things are, but I so far have not been able to find it.

Thanks for the suggestion though. I'll keep trying.

[Einar Thorsrud]

The <InstallFolder> refers to the location were you have extracted the SDK distribution zip, which you can find here.

[DaleScott]

Einor,

Well, I downloaded the zip file you pointed me toward (thank you) and looked at the main file. While I have no way of executing it with my Arduino Primo (that I know of), I did attempt to match all the characteristics, company names, etc. to match those in the Nordic file. Sadly, the app still sees no beacon signal.

So, thanks for your help. Chow.