nRF52840 Dongle BLE Connectivity Example integration with BLE peripheral Communication example

RE: nRF52840 Dongle BLE Connectivity Example integration with BLE peripheral Communication example

Einar Thorsrud — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 07:17:34 GMT

The connectivity project in the SDK need to be slightly modified to work with the pc-ble-driver. Therefore, you should get the SDK and apply the patch as described under Compiling the connectivity .hex files if you want to build it yourself. Alternatively you can simply use the precompiled connectivity firmware which already has the needed modifications, as you can find here.

RE: nRF52840 Dongle BLE Connectivity Example integration with BLE peripheral Communication example

Esteban — Thu, 30 Aug 2018 18:21:09 GMT

Einar, can you provide a link or a location in the sdk to the project file, (keil or ses) for connectivity_1.2.3_usb_with_s132_3.1.hex? Thank you.

RE: nRF52840 Dongle BLE Connectivity Example integration with BLE peripheral Communication example

Einar Thorsrud — Wed, 22 Aug 2018 07:29:29 GMT

Hi,

Ah, ignore the file name. It was a copy past error on my part. It should be connectivity_1.2.3_usb_with_s132_3.1.hex, which you can find here. It is intended for the nRF52840 even though it uses the S132 SoftDevice. (We do not have a tested S140 SoftDevice connectivity firmware that work with pc-ble-driver).

RE: nRF52840 Dongle BLE Connectivity Example integration with BLE peripheral Communication example

Esteban — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 19:20:47 GMT

Based on the instructions in the install document, it says that when you install the latest version of nRFConnect v2.4, the needed drivers are installed. But when I look at devices and printers it says that there isn't anything installed to identify it.

RE: nRF52840 Dongle BLE Connectivity Example integration with BLE peripheral Communication example

Esteban — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 16:20:41 GMT

Hi Einar,

I don't see a "connectivity_6.0_1m_with_s140_usb_6.0.hex" in the hex folder when I look under tag 2.3.2. Can you provide a direct link to it?

I see a connectivity_1.2.3_usb_with_s132_3.1.hex but I don't expect that to work since it's for Soft device 132. I tried either way to merge this hex file with my application using mergehex but it says there are conflicts.

I also tried flashing the zip package in the examples to the dongle with success, I checked on my terminal and the dongle is on a loop sending a hex string but it doesn't do much else.

I'm close but I still need some pointers. Thanks!

RE: nRF52840 Dongle BLE Connectivity Example integration with BLE peripheral Communication example

Einar Thorsrud — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 12:22:36 GMT

Hi,

The connectivity example is for using the nRF52840 as a connectivity chip. If you want to use it from a PC, then the pc-ble-driver is probably what you want. Currently you should use the v2.3.2 tag of the pc-ble-driver as the master does not have support for the nRF52840 dongle. You should use this version on the PC, and the connectivity firmware connectivity_6.0_1m_with_s140_usb_6.0.hex from here (same tag) instead of the one from the SDK (that you referred to). The pc-ble-driver variant is based on the SDK connectivity firmware, but with some changes.