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.

[Martin Lesund]

Hi John,

I appreciate your feedback, and it is very important and helpful for us when the community tells us what we are doing good and what we can improve upon.
We will absolutely take your comments in consideration in our way forward to improve the user experience for developers.

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I can understand many of your points in your feedback, and I will just let you know that we are and have been working on improving this.

e.g.
With regards to "starting from scratch" with nRF91, we updated the Getting Started Tutorial last week to stay updated with the changes that was introduced in the v0.4.0 release.

This tutorial also guides the user to use the latest "Getting started Assistant" application in nRF Connect for Desktop to set up the Toolchain and NCS version.

It is recommended to use the latest tag (which for this time being v0.4.0) and not the master branch when you are working with NCS for the best stable experience.

Please take a look in the Getting started tutorial and you will probably see that it includes most of the things you are requesting.

Best Regards,

Martin L.

[John]

Martin, your comments are very much appreciated. I have somewhat naively assumed that if an example has been pushed to Git Master branch and compiles then it should follow that someone had done a tiny bit of testing such as inserting a sim and gaining a connection, which clearly isn't the case and as a consequence reflects badly upon Nordic.

However, now I clearly understand to use the latest tag obtainable from the following link:

https://github.com/NordicPlayground/fw-nrfconnect-zephyr/tags

(Which by the way seems to have changed since yesterday and is no longer v0.4.0 and is now v1.14.99-ncs1)

Please confirm that I'm correct.

[John]

Sorry my mistake.

https://github.com/NordicPlayground/fw-nrfconnect-nrf/releases

Tag is v0.4.0 as you mentioned.