Development of Beacon & Scanner using nrf

RE: Development of Beacon & Scanner using nrf

Simonr — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 13:21:53 GMT

Sorry, but why do you need to send this twice, is it due to the range between the beacon and the central DK or what?

In any case, you can take a look at the BLE Relay example to see how to relay data from a peripheral, via a device to a central that is further away. This example should be quite straight forward to implement to your use case.

Best regards,

Simon

RE: Development of Beacon & Scanner using nrf

kaushik24psl — Thu, 24 Oct 2019 04:36:28 GMT

Hi, Beacon data is being scanned by the scanner and this scanner data needs to be advertised again and needs to be captured by another DK..kindly guide me how to go about it

RE: Development of Beacon & Scanner using nrf

Simonr — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 11:58:40 GMT

You can, for example, use the pc-ble-driver from Nordic, and connect something like the nRF52 Dongle (which can be used as the scanner, or just a receiver that gets the scanner data from your actual scanners) to the Raspberry Pi which can then be used to process the scanner data and send it to the server. I don't have any Raspberry Pi examples I'm afraid, but GitHub or a Raspberry Pi forum should be your friend on that matter.

Best regards,

Simon

RE: Development of Beacon & Scanner using nrf

kaushik24psl — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 04:27:23 GMT

Thank You very much for your timely support .

If i am using Pi as gateway can you guide me regarding nordic scanner connections with pi.As in how to interface this two devices with BLE and get advertised data in Raspberry pi.

kindly guide me regarding libraries need to be used
Also u can provide sample code if available for interfacing BLE
Provide me some references

RE: Development of Beacon & Scanner using nrf

Simonr — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:01:01 GMT

Okay, thank you for clarifying!

I don't recommend using the nRF52840DK for a gateway like this. It would be way easier to send the beacon scanner data onwards to a Raspberry Pi or similar and use that as a gateway instead.

Best regards,

Simon

RE: Development of Beacon & Scanner using nrf

kaushik24psl — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 06:31:20 GMT

We dont require to use nRF cloud and this server .we have another server with which MQTT based connection should happen.

Here I have already developed beacon scanner application now that data which is advertised should get scaned by gateway and than it should it should post on our server using MQTT.

any possible soultion plz rever

RE: Development of Beacon & Scanner using nrf

Simonr — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 06:08:38 GMT

Sorry, but I think I'll need some more information here. A gateway to what exactly? We do have examples/source code for a gateway to nRFCloud, but I'm not sure if this is the server you want to send to. Please specify what you're after, and I'll try to help you.

Best regards,

Simon

RE: Development of Beacon & Scanner using nrf

kaushik24psl — Mon, 14 Oct 2019 04:18:08 GMT

Hello

Thanks for providing me relevent references which solved my problem of scanner system

Now im moving on to making a Gateway using Nordic 52840 DK

operation of Gateway should be such that it should detect the no of scanners in it visinity and detrmine the data and further post it to the server.

kindly provide me some help

thanks

RE: Development of Beacon & Scanner using nrf

Simonr — Mon, 30 Sep 2019 08:59:18 GMT

On the Infocenter, you can download our SDK, which includes examples for both a BLE beacon (peripheral) called ble_app_beacon, and multiple central applications that should be able to configure to scan for beacons. This post describes how you can modify the ble_app_uart_c example to scan for beacons for example.

In order to make the beacon example compatible with your nRF52840 Dongle, you'll have to follow the nRF52 Dongle programming tutorial, which shows you how to adapt a BLE example for the Dongle and flash.

In nRF Connect for Desktop, you can also flash a scanner onto the nRF52840 DK by launching the Bluetooth Low Energy app, and confirm that you want to program the device.

Best regards,

Simon