Alternatives to Bluetooth Developer Studio

RE: Alternatives to Bluetooth Developer Studio

sherif — Tue, 13 Aug 2019 21:54:17 GMT

Frankly speaking i have been debugging an example project using Segger for 1 week, and this project would have been finished in no time, if i am able to use BDS with Nordic as i used to use it with TI.

RE: Alternatives to Bluetooth Developer Studio

ilw — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 14:30:36 GMT

As sherif is alluding to, Segger Embedded Studio (SES) is entirely complementary to Bluetooth Developer Studio (BDS) - there is almost no overlap in functionality. We used BDS (+the nordic plugin) as a code generator and profile/service planning tool whereas SES is an IDE.

The Bluetooth SIG have killed off a useful & free tool and I still can't find any information on what the commercial or free alternative to it is. They could've made it open source abandonware, but I'm guessing its been sold off

RE: Alternatives to Bluetooth Developer Studio

Bjørn Kvaale — Wed, 07 Aug 2019 13:59:24 GMT

We maintain SES & make improvements if necessary. I have not tried BDS, so I cannot comment. Regarding SES, if you run into any issues, support engineers at Nordic have extensive knowledge & will most likely be able to help. Keil is another option, but it can get quite expensive.

RE: Alternatives to Bluetooth Developer Studio

howard n2wx — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:29:05 GMT

Is BDS viable? It's abandonware without source code. I'm not thrilled with SES but at least it's maintained and it's not another in a long line of clunky Eclipse gcc wrappers (I'm looking at you, MCUXpresso/KDS/etc)

And what's up with all of these Eclipse IDEs anyway? You look the wrong way at an Eclipse work directory and the entire project has to be reimported to a new work directory with the loss of all of the settings.

RE: Alternatives to Bluetooth Developer Studio

sherif — Tue, 06 Aug 2019 13:09:01 GMT

This is not the reply one is expecting. BDS has nice gui interface that is easy to use to develop the Gatt sevices even for TI chips. Nordic has also a plugin and it is much better than manual mistakes.

RE: Alternatives to Bluetooth Developer Studio

Bjørn Kvaale — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 08:48:10 GMT

I would download Segger Embedded Studio, which is free for Nordic SDK users. Then, I would take a look at this getting started tutorial, as well as this custom service tutorial.