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Connect nRF52840-Dongle in a Raspberry pi 3B+

Hi :)

I would like to test the nRF52840-Dongle in a Raspberry Pi 3B+ OS = Rasbian (the bluetooth 5 features: 2Mbps and Long range). but unfortunately I didn't find a nRF-Connect to install in ARMv7 CPU.

Questions:

1. There is a nRF-Connect for the CPU ARMv7

2. did you have one example how I can interact with the nRF52840-Dongle in the Raspberry PI 3B+ without to install the nRF-Connect (for example with the command line, library...)

Thanks in advance

Diana

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Jørgen Holmefjord over 6 years ago +2

Hi, There is no pre-built binary for ARMv7 architecture. You can try to build the application from source, source and instructions are available in the GitHub repository . Please have a look at the…

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0 Jørgen Holmefjord over 6 years ago
Hi,

There is no pre-built binary for ARMv7 architecture. You can try to build the application from source, source and instructions are available in the GitHub repository.

Please have a look at the pc-ble-driver library. There is also a python version that is quite simple to setup and use.

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0 Jørgen Holmefjord over 6 years ago
Hi,

There is no pre-built binary for ARMv7 architecture. You can try to build the application from source, source and instructions are available in the GitHub repository.

Please have a look at the pc-ble-driver library. There is also a python version that is quite simple to setup and use.

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0 Diana Lucia Serna over 6 years ago in reply to Jørgen Holmefjord

Hi,

thanks... I will try

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0 Diana Lucia Serna over 6 years ago in reply to Jørgen Holmefjord

Hi Jorgen,

I had tried to install the nRF-Connect in my raspberry but it is not working :(...

I had installed successfully (the installation ended without any error) the pc-ble-driver-py in the folder /home/pi/pc-ble-driver-py, following the commands:

git clone [email protected]:NordicSemiconductor/pc-ble-driver-py.git
cd pc-ble-driver-py/
git submodule init
git submodule update
cd build/
cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" ..
make

I can see in the folder home/pi/pc-ble-driver-py/build/outdir the files:

libpc_ble_driver_shared_sd_api_v2.so
libpc_ble_driver_shared_sd_api_v3.so 
libpc_ble_driver_static_sd_api_v2.a
libpc_ble_driver_static_sd_api_v3.a
pc_ble_driver_sd_api_v2.i
pc_ble_driver_sd_api_v2.py 
pc_ble_driver_sd_api_v2PYTHON_wrap.
_pc_ble_driver_sd_api_v2.so
pc_ble_driver_sd_api_v3.i
pc_ble_driver_sd_api_v3.py
pc_ble_driver_sd_api_v3PYTHON_wrap.c
_pc_ble_driver_sd_api_v3.so
test_uart

so I guess that the library pc_ble_driver was compiled successfully... (I hope)

Question: should I move this files to other folder, to be used for the nrConnect?

After I had cloned the project https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/pc-nrfconnect-core.git
cd /home/pi/pc-nrfconnect-core

in this folder I had tried to install the pc-ble-driver-js 
but I get always the following error:

make: Verzeichnis „/home/pi/pc-nrfconnect-core/node_modules/pc-ble-driver-js/node_modules/nrf-usb/build“ wird verlassen
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:246:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.14.71-v7+
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "build" "--fallback-to-build" "--module=/home/pi/pc-nrfconnect-core/node_modules/pc-ble-driver-js/node_modules/nrf-usb/src/binding/usb_bindings.node" "--module_name=usb_bindings" "--module_path=/home/pi/pc-nrfconnect-core/node_modules/pc-ble-driver-js/node_modules/nrf-usb/src/binding" "--napi_version=3" "--node_abi_napi=napi"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/pc-nrfconnect-core/node_modules/pc-ble-driver-js/node_modules/nrf-usb
gyp ERR! node -v v11.1.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok 
node-pre-gyp ERR! build error 
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack Error: Failed to execute '/usr/bin/node /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js build --fallback-to-build --module=/home/pi/pc-nrfconnect-core/node_modules/pc-ble-driver-js/node_modules/nrf-usb/src/binding/usb_bindings.node --module_name=usb_bindings --module_path=/home/pi/pc-nrfconnect-core/node_modules/pc-ble-driver-js/node_modules/nrf-usb/src/binding --napi_version=3 --node_abi_napi=napi' (1)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.<anonymous> (/home/pi/pc-nrfconnect-core/node_modules/pc-ble-driver-js/node_modules/nrf-usb/node_modules/node-pre-gyp/lib/util/compile.js:83:29)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at maybeClose (internal/child_process.js:970:16)
node-pre-gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:257:5)
node-pre-gyp ERR! System Linux 4.14.71-v7+
node-pre-gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/home/pi/pc-nrfconnect-core/node_modules/pc-ble-driver-js/node_modules/nrf-usb/node_modules/.bin/node-pre-gyp" "install" "--fallback-to-build"
node-pre-gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/pc-nrfconnect-core/node_modules/pc-ble-driver-js/node_modules/nrf-usb
node-pre-gyp ERR! node -v v11.1.0
node-pre-gyp ERR! node-pre-gyp -v v0.10.3
node-pre-gyp ERR! not ok 
Failed to execute '/usr/bin/node /usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js build --fallback-to-build --module=/home/pi/pc-nrfconnect-core/node_modules/pc-ble-driver-js/node_modules/nrf-usb/src/binding/usb_bindings.node --module_name=usb_bindings --module_path=/home/pi/pc-nrfconnect-core/node_modules/pc-ble-driver-js/node_modules/nrf-usb/src/binding --napi_version=3 --node_abi_napi=napi' (1)
../libusb/libusb/descriptor.c:1199:1: fatal error: opening dependency file ./Release/.deps/Release/obj.target/libusb/libusb/libusb/descriptor.o.d.raw: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden
 }
 ^
compilation terminated.
libusb.target.mk:138: die Regel für Ziel „Release/obj.target/libusb/libusb/libusb/descriptor.o“ scheiterte
make: *** [Release/obj.target/libusb/libusb/libusb/descriptor.o] Fehler 1
make: Verzeichnis „/home/pi/pc-nrfconnect-core/node_modules/pc-ble-driver-js/node_modules/nrf-usb/build“ wird verlassen
gyp ERR! build error 
gyp ERR! stack Error: `make` failed with exit code: 2
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.onExit (/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/lib/build.js:262:23)
gyp ERR! stack     at ChildProcess.emit (events.js:182:13)
gyp ERR! stack     at Process.ChildProcess._handle.onexit (internal/child_process.js:246:12)
gyp ERR! System Linux 4.14.71-v7+
gyp ERR! command "/usr/bin/node" "/usr/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/node-gyp/bin/node-gyp.js" "build" "--fallback-to-build" "--module=/home/pi/pc-nrfconnect-core/node_modules/pc-ble-driver-js/node_modules/nrf-usb/src/binding/usb_bindings.node" "--module_name=usb_bindings" "--module_path=/home/pi/pc-nrfconnect-core/node_modules/pc-ble-driver-js/node_modules/nrf-usb/src/binding" "--napi_version=3" "--node_abi_napi=napi"
gyp ERR! cwd /home/pi/pc-nrfconnect-core/node_modules/pc-ble-driver-js/node_modules/nrf-usb
gyp ERR! node -v v11.1.0
gyp ERR! node-gyp -v v3.8.0
gyp ERR! not ok 
npm WARN [email protected] requires a peer of ajv@^5.0.0 but none is installed. You must install peer dependencies yourself.
npm WARN [email protected] license should be a valid SPDX license expression
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: [email protected] (node_modules/7zip-bin-win):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"win32","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm"})
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: [email protected] (node_modules/7zip-bin-mac):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm"})
npm WARN optional SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: [email protected] (node_modules/fsevents):
npm WARN notsup SKIPPING OPTIONAL DEPENDENCY: Unsupported platform for [email protected]: wanted {"os":"darwin","arch":"any"} (current: {"os":"linux","arch":"arm"})

npm ERR! code ELIFECYCLE
npm ERR! errno 1
npm ERR! [email protected] install: `node-pre-gyp install --fallback-to-build`
npm ERR! Exit status 1
npm ERR! 
npm ERR! Failed at the [email protected] install script.
npm ERR! This is probably not a problem with npm. There is likely additional logging output above.

npm ERR! A complete log of this run can be found in:
npm ERR!     /home/pi/.npm/_logs/2018-11-07T21_20_02_930Z-debug.log

I had also tried npm install but still I have some errors.


Then I had tried to install in other folder the pc-ble-drive-js also without succes :(
git clone https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/pc-ble-driver-js.git
cd pc-ble-driver-js

I had follow the instructions to building pc-ble-driver (https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/pc-ble-driver/blob/master/Installation.md)
but unfortunately it was not clear which steps I need to do

Do you have a detailed description about what I need to do to build the pc-ble-driver 
in my raspeberry?

some steps was working, other not :(

I am really interested that the nRF-82540 dongle works in a cpu architecture ARM (like the raspberry), 
since my company works with this kind of CPU. My company produces controllers
(temperature controller) and we want to provide them with a wireless comunication.

Thanks a lot and sorry for all the questions...

Diana Lucia Serna

0 Diana Lucia Serna over 6 years ago in reply to Jørgen Holmefjord

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