nrfgo Studio dont detect my nRF52840

RE: nrfgo Studio dont detect my nRF52840

awneil — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 14:05:45 GMT

[quote userid="76402" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/42551/nrfgo-studio-dont-detect-my-nrf52840/165749"]Strange how complicated it is to set up a development environment for these chips[/quote]

Actually, "these chips" are pretty complicated devices!

Not only do you have a full microcontroller - which needs a full microcontroller development environment - but you also have the added complication of an advanced, multi-protocol radio.

RE: nrfgo Studio dont detect my nRF52840

Einar Thorsrud — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 14:00:13 GMT

Hi,

Thank you for the feedback. We (Nordic) try to provide useful and updated documentation, but a common problem is that there is also documentation that is outdated or only relevant for customers using older devices or SDK's. There resources are particularly useful for customers that are new to nRF5 development:

Unfortunately the latter of those are not up to date (for instance it recommends using nRFgo Studio). I have reported this internally.

RE: nrfgo Studio dont detect my nRF52840

Bitfikler — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 13:48:11 GMT

Thanks for answer Einar! Its not easy to do the right things when one follow instructions and links on Nordic homepage. Nothing tells me there these things you and "awneil" do. I feel its very confusing to use the tools when the presented instruction lead me to solutions that dont work and are out dated.

Maybe Nordic need some quality check of ALL documentation and instructions, examples and so on, so users dont waste a lot of time on non working solutions ?

RE: nrfgo Studio dont detect my nRF52840

Einar Thorsrud — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 13:30:06 GMT

Hi,

Like awneil wrote, nRFgo Studio is legacy software and should not be used. It does not support the nRF52840. you should use the Programmer app for nRF Connect for Desktop instead. That said, you do not need to explicitly flash the SoftDevice if you use Segger Embedded Studio, as that will flash the SoftDevice for you when you program a BLE example.

RE: nrfgo Studio dont detect my nRF52840

Bitfikler — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 13:15:22 GMT

Hi,

I was about to try BLE an example, this need SoftDevice installation and brought me into next problem, nRFgo Studio.

So no BLE ex. tested out yet.

When installed the Studio first time I got a log-file with lots of errors, they told med nothing so I closed the log-file.

I started a new installation and chose "Repai", think the installation ended with no errors this time.

I downloaded the nRFgo Studio yesterday from Nordic, guess its latest version, and expect it to work.

I will check out nRFConnect when comming home from work.

Strange how complicated it is to set up a development environment for these chips. Think I spen at least 15 hours with problems, reading installation instructions, phone calls, DevZone etc.

RE: nrfgo Studio dont detect my nRF52840

awneil — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 12:41:37 GMT

What board are you using?

Have you had a BLE example working?

[quote userid="76402" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/42551/nrfgo-studio-dont-detect-my-nrf52840"]Im told to install SoftDevice package before downloading the example firmware[/quote]

That's correct - and make sure you don't erase before programming the example!

[quote userid="76402" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/42551/nrfgo-studio-dont-detect-my-nrf52840"]got some error messages[/quote]

What error messages, exactly?

It's hard to advise how to resolve errors when we don't know what they are!

[quote userid="76402" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/42551/nrfgo-studio-dont-detect-my-nrf52840"] I cant find the nRF52840 chip [/quote]

I think nRFgo is old and no longer maintained - so it won't recognise newer chips like nRF52840.

Try nRFConnect instead ...