nRF52 DK Programming using PlatformIO

[Steffie]

Hello I am a new user in the BLE world.

I am using the nRF52 DK board and trying to program it via PlatformIO by visual studio code i.e coding with arduino programming C++. I tried flasing the LED blink code and it works fine. But when I include the BLE feature and dump a code onto the board, it says uploaded successfully but the mobile app nRF connect dose not identify the Nordic nRF52 BLE device. 

The code I uploaded was

#include <Arduino.h>
#include <SPI.h>
#include <BLEPeripheral.h>

BLEPeripheral ledPeripheral = BLEPeripheral();

BLEService ledService = BLEService("19b10000e8f2537e4f6cd104768a1214");
BLECharCharacteristic ledCharacteristic = BLECharCharacteristic("19b10001e8f2537e4f6cd104768a1214", BLERead | BLEWrite);

void setup()
{
  pinMode(LED_BUILTIN, OUTPUT);

  ledPeripheral.setAdvertisedServiceUuid(ledService.uuid());
  ledPeripheral.addAttribute(ledService);
  ledPeripheral.addAttribute(ledCharacteristic);
  ledPeripheral.setLocalName("Nordic NRF52 DK");
  ledPeripheral.begin();
}

void loop()
{
  BLECentral central = ledPeripheral.central();

  if (central) {
    while (central.connected()) {
      if (ledCharacteristic.written()) {
        if (ledCharacteristic.value()) {
          digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, HIGH);
        }
        else{
          digitalWrite(LED_BUILTIN, LOW);
        }
      }
    }
  }
}




Please guide me on this.

[googx]

Hi there, I am having the same problem but don't seem to be able to open the link that Amanda posted. Did you manage to solve your problem? Thank you :)

[Nguyen Hoan Hoang]

Arduino is not really recommended for BLE development.  

If you don't mind using Eclipse, see these blogs for an easy way to work with the SDK.

https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/nordic/nordic-blog/b/blog/posts/writing-ble-firmware-with-a-few-lines-of-code-part

http://embeddedsoftdev.blogspot.com/2018/

[googx]

Thank you Nguyen I will give it a try :)