Hi, First I want to thank all nordic staff for their great work on sdk & this incredible tiny chip that do a lot :-). I play a little with the devkit sample and my nrf development kit and all work really fine.
Next step, I have a project of building a box for controlling lights dimmer ( with PWM) . This box use a nrf51822 + an I2C chip for more PWM channels.
This box take it's settings from a windows application (in C#) that must send all parameters over the air. First problem I need a way to communicate to the box from old system like windows Xp and 7. From what i see BLE is not supported before windows 8.1.
So i start thinking for building some custom/diy dongle with another nrf51822 linked to a usb-uart chip like ftdi FT232R. I couldn't use the dongle provided with the development kit as I must keep it for later development.
I know that two nrf firmwares will be needed:
- for the dongle that connect to the nrf in the box and must transmit data
- for the box that do the light control.
Somes questions :
- Is it possible to have two nrf51822 that communicate in this way ?
- Do you know a simple way in order to communicate betwen the two nrf chip ? is there any protocole like gazel or other that could help ?
- Is there specific point to look after in order to connect the ftdi FT232 chip ?
Thanks a lot.
