Whisper Ware (nRf9160)

[John]

Without doubt there is a new variation of software emerging:

We are all familiar with Firmware and Software, however I really feel the need to coin the term "Whisper Ware" when it comes to the nRF9160 which I must add we are absolutely committed to making work.

I have personally spent the last 12 hours, uninstalling, changing branches, reinstalling, and trying my best to follow every "whisper" in this forum to make any of the sample applications work.

Even more frustrating is that for a brief time they did seem to function.

Now whatever I do, AT commands time out as follows:

Error: 'AT+CFUN? ' timed out

If someone would be kind enough to give detailed instruction on how I may be able to start "from scratch" and therefore remove any legacy that may exist, I would be very grateful.

I'm using Windows 10 and clearly very very frustrated.

On the ever positive side, I'm thrilled to bits that the implementation currently is such a mess, as most will or already have simply given up as they will not have the sincere patience that I have.

[John]

After spending several more hours today investigating how to make any of the examples function, including deleting the programdata/chocolatey directory and removing python and any legacy I could find.

Eventually I discovered that the Master branch of the SDK doesn't run properly.

However after performing the following:

cd ncs/nrf
git checkout master
git pull
git checkout v0.4.0
west update

and thereafter following the procedure to manually download to the nRF9160-DK merged.hex (found within the build directory/zephry) after doing an erase all.

The Asset Tracker at least and finally responded to AT commands.

There is clearly immense frustration from the dev zone community regarding the current software implementation which is changing albeit on a daily basis.

In my humble opinion it would be best if there was a single example on a single operating system, that actually functioned rather than forcing the community to stumble upon "whispers" and esoteric differences to make an already highly complicated product perform as expected.

To require programmers/developers to proceed in this manner is at best very poor/bad practice and completely unacceptable.

I would be extremely grateful if my comments were taken even slightly seriously please.