use ant for nrf52840

[marikalp]

hi,could i ask you what should i do in order to use ant on the pca10056 board? i added the s340 softdevice  but no example works on the board. thanks a lot!!

[Vidar Berg]

Hi, 

You need to copy the SD API headers to your SDK and uncomment ANT_LICENSE_KEY. From the SDK getting started guide:

Running ANT examples

ANT SoftDevices for the nRF52 Series are not distributed by Nordic Semiconductor. You can download them from thisisant.com.

There are no Keil or GCC targets to program these SoftDevices. You must therefore use nRFgo Studio to program them.

The SDK does not include the header files for the ANT SoftDevices. You must add them to your project before you can compile your application. To do so, extract the downloaded zip file that contains the SoftDevice and copy the SoftDevice headers to components/softdevice/SoftDevice/headers.

Make sure that ANT_LICENSE_KEY is uncommented in the nrf_sdm.h file that you copied. The included license key can be used for evaluation, but before releasing a product, it must be replaced with a valid commercial license key. For more information about licensing, see thisisant.com.

[marikalp]

i did all of this step before and i also changed the input board to pca10040 to pca10056in my bord but it did work in the right way

[Vidar Berg]

I just assumed that had we would more ANT examples set up for pca10056 when I saw that s340 support was added, but it looks like it's only this example: \examples\ant\experimental\ant_shared_channel\m2m\pca10056 at the moment. Have you tried to compile this one?

[marikalp]

yes but i did not understand in which way i have to program the other board for the comunication..moreover the tool antware || did not recognise the board.

[Vidar Berg]

You could use the project configuration (i.e., linker settings, include path for s340, and board flag) for this example to port another project to the pca10056 board. I can probably help with the porting if you want. Just let me know what IDE/toolchain you use, and which example you are interested in.

[marikalp]

i resolvedabout this..the problem was about the softdeviced..can you help me whith thishttps://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/44919/enter-bootloader-mode-for-nrf52840-devkit?