nRF5 SDK15 ble_ant_app_hrm compilation is broken

[Alex123456]

Hello,

I've been trying to use latest nRF5_SDK_15.3.0_59ac345 from the website (couldn't find git repo for this - apparently there's none).

ble_ant_app_hrm example project on pca10040 target - s332 softdevice (BLE5 + ANT use-case on nRF52 DK).

The compilation fails as nrf_error.h is missing - if you use the file from different softdevice (s132 for example), nrf_mbr.h, nrf_soc.h is missing and so on.

Tried both SAGGER project and Keil project - same result.

Something is missing, I'm doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance

[awneil]

Alex123456 said:

couldn't find git repo for this - apparently there's none

That's right - the website is the correct download source.

Alex123456 said:

ble_ant_app_hrm example

Is it significant that this is an ANT project?

I've only done BLE with this SDK version - and not had such problems ... 

I think the ANT stuff is now separately owned/managed/whatever by some 3rd party (Dynastream?) ... ?

[Alex123456]

awneil said:

Is it significant that this is an ANT project?

Unfortunately, that our reason for evaluating Nordic board - to have both ANT and BLE support simultaneously on the same chip.

Can anyone point me to an older version? I'm sure it wasn't always broken ...

Dynastream is basically Garmin, they are pretty much "own" this protocol ...

[awneil]

Alex123456 said:

Can anyone point me to an older version?

The same place you down loaded this one has an option for 'Previous Versions' ...

[Alex123456]

Thanks.

Well ... I tried all the versions down to SDK 11 - which is apparently the first version where pca10040 target was added - all broken the same way.

SDK 9 has this example added first ... its for pca10028 - but Keil refuses to download its dependencies ...

[Alex123456]

After re-visiting this issue I found out what was wrong:

Turns out you actually need to get license from https://www.thisisant.com/developer/components/nrf52832 and "their portion" of the code to run any ANT examples before you can do anything. In addition to flashing provided hex file before your code ...

It is somewhat documented here, although not really clearly. 

https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.nordic.infocenter.sdk5.v15.3.0%2Fgetting_started_softdevice.html&anchor=getting_started_sd_ant52

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