RE: Bluetooth 5 Long Range to Mobile Devices

awneil — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 09:07:15 GMT

[quote userid="25706" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/45810/bluetooth-5-long-range-to-mobile-devices"]don't support coded PHY even though they claim to be BLE5.0 compatible[/quote]

This is perfectly valid - because of the way the Bluetooth SIG have defined the criteria to be "BLE5.0 compatible".

See: https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/33060/is-there-any-smartphone-with-supporting-of-bluetooth-5-long-range-feature/157599#157599

[quote userid="25706" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/45810/bluetooth-5-long-range-to-mobile-devices"]I was using SDK12.3 for nRF52832 and tx_power_set didn't take these many parameters[/quote]

See: https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/37928/just-set-tx-power/146239#146239

[quote userid="25706" url="~/f/nordic-q-a/45810/bluetooth-5-long-range-to-mobile-devices"]would using coded PHY only on the transmitter side still help transmission range? [/quote]

No: https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/24859/bluetooth-5-long-range/97908#97908