BLE Central UART example for PCA10059 (nRF52840-dongle)

[Steven Grunza]

Will there be an example of the Nordic UART Service in the central role for the PCA10059 (nRF52840-dongle)?  If so is there any timeline on release?

[awneil]

As frequently noted, the recommended platform for development is the DK - because it comes with the debugger and other facilities (switches, LEDs, etc) used by most of the examples.

The Dongle has none of those.

Once you have your project working on a DK, it's an easy matter to transfer it to the Dongle.

[Nguyen Hoan Hoang]

You can use the one for the PCA10056.  Just remap the UART pins.  

[Steven Grunza]

Except the idea is to use the BLE radio and the USB CDC interface, not the UART.  On the PCA10059 the UART does not connect to the USB bus.

[Nguyen Hoan Hoang]

Ah, that's a different story.  You can combine the CDC example with the uart example for that.

[Steven Grunza]

Which I am trying to do and have created an ugly mess.  To make this all that much more fun the debugger seems to be refusing to stop at main.

My compiler is IAR EWARM.  My hardware is (now changed to be) the PCA10056 board so I'm using the built-in Jlink.

When I start debugging the code immediately runs and creates the CDC device (as shown in the Win7 Device Manager window) but I can't open the device.

It is this weeks long effort of getting a BLE NUS Central with USB working that I was hoping Nordic would create as an example.