Writing to flash in the nus example

RE: Writing to flash in the nus example

Jørgen Holmefjord — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 12:48:23 GMT

Please have a look at this video tutorial. If logging is not set up in the project, it requires quite a lot of files and configs to be added, if it is set up, it can be enabled by setting NRF_LOG_ENABLED to 1 in the sdk_config.h file.

RE: Writing to flash in the nus example

Dcrossd — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 11:10:02 GMT

how do i setup the debug flag and enable logging on ses?

RE: Writing to flash in the nus example

Jørgen Holmefjord — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 09:24:26 GMT

Some function returned an error code. The error codes are normally passed to APP_ERROR_CHECK macro, which will call the error handler in case of non-zero error code (not NRF_SUCCESS). If you set the DEBUG flag, and have logging enabled, the error code and line number will be output to the log. You can also check the variables directly when debugging.

RE: Writing to flash in the nus example

Dcrossd — Mon, 24 Jun 2019 08:48:11 GMT

when i run the above code in debug mode in ses

the app_error_weak.c file opens and execution stops at NRF_BREAKPOINT_COND;

and the comment next to this statement states that " On assert, the system can only recover with a reset."

why is this happening?

RE: Writing to flash in the nus example

Jørgen Holmefjord — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 11:11:35 GMT

As mentioned by Ashish you can use FDS, but note that this does not provide any better integration with softdevice than what fstorage does. FDS is a higher layer library that builds on top of fstorage, they both support asynchronous write/erase, and both softdevice and NVMC backends. What FDS does provide, is simpler access and organization of stored data, in addition to wear leveling and content integration management.

If you want to keep using fstorage, I would recommend that debug the application to check for error codes. It sounds like the chip resets, which is the default behavior if it ends up in the error handler.

RE: Writing to flash in the nus example

Ashish — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 06:55:22 GMT

Hey,

If you are using BLE and flash write together, try FDS instead of fstorage. FDS has asynchronous callbacks and should work better with SoftDevice.

RE: Writing to flash in the nus example

Dcrossd — Fri, 21 Jun 2019 05:54:07 GMT

I forgot to set the code snippet to C format

here is the snippet

static void nus_data_handler(ble_nus_evt_t * p_evt)
{
    char wagon[20];//string i added 
    if (p_evt->type == BLE_NUS_EVT_RX_DATA)
    {
        uint32_t err_code;

        NRF_LOG_DEBUG("Received data from BLE NUS. Writing data on UART.");
        NRF_LOG_HEXDUMP_DEBUG(p_evt->params.rx_data.p_data, p_evt->params.rx_data.length);
        strcpy(wagon,p_evt->params.rx_data.p_data);//string copy
        for (uint32_t i = 0; i < p_evt->params.rx_data.length; i++)
        {
            do
            {
                err_code = app_uart_put(p_evt->params.rx_data.p_data[i]);
                if ((err_code != NRF_SUCCESS) && (err_code != NRF_ERROR_BUSY))
                {
                    NRF_LOG_ERROR("Failed receiving NUS message. Error 0x%x. ", err_code);
                    APP_ERROR_CHECK(err_code);
                }
            } while (err_code == NRF_ERROR_BUSY);
        }
        if (p_evt->params.rx_data.p_data[p_evt->params.rx_data.length - 1] == '\r')
        {
            while (app_uart_put('\n') == NRF_ERROR_BUSY);
        }
    }
    //changes i made 
    ret_code_t rc;
    nrf_fstorage_api_t * p_fs_api;
    p_fs_api = &nrf_fstorage_sd;
    rc = nrf_fstorage_init(&fstorage, p_fs_api, NULL);
    APP_ERROR_CHECK(rc);
    rc = nrf_fstorage_write(&fstorage, 0x3e000, wagon, strlen(wagon), NULL);
    APP_ERROR_CHECK(rc);

}