arduino-nrf5 libraries for Arduino IDE

[Bob Recny]

Greetings,

Does anyone know if there are updates planned for the Arduino IDE with the latest SoftDevice versions? I opened this issue on GitHub: https://github.com/sandeepmistry/arduino-nRF5/issues/331, but was curious if there was any activity here as well. I realize SEGGER is a great tool, but some customers like the Arduino IDE.

Thanks,

Bob

[Patrick]

Adafruit has put a massive amount of work into their arduino BSP for the nrf52 series. Support for the latest soft device and the nrf52840 has recently been added.

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi,

Nordic does not provide any official support for Arduino. You will have to check this directly with the developers of the 3rd party developers. I would not recommend using Arduino for a production environment. For prototyping, Zephyr RTOS can be used with nRF52 series devices.

Best regards,
Jørgen

[williammoberg]

That’s a good question the arduino-nRF5 support package hasn’t seen much movement lately, especially regarding updates for newer SoftDevice versions. Most of the community updates I’ve seen are handled through forks rather than official releases.

If you’re sticking with the arduino ( https://easyelecmodule.com/?s=arduino&post_type=product ) IDE for simplicity, you can manually include the latest SoftDevice binaries and update the linker scripts, but it takes a bit of tweaking. I’ve done it for a few custom BLE builds, and it works fine as long as you adjust the memory mapping to match the new S132 or S140 configurations.

For larger projects or production-level firmware, switching to SEGGER or PlatformIO might give more control — but for quick prototyping, the arduino workflow is still the easiest entry point for the nRF5 boards.