Bluetooth SDK - Help Getting Started

[Justin Reina]

Hi,

Our team has identified an opportunity that your nRF52832 fits well, I am having a difficult time getting started with your Bluetooth SDK and reaching out for assistance. I have experience with other BLE-MCU solutions, I am having difficulties getting started with the nRF and need assistance getting started.

Working now:

• Alt. MCU-BLE solns (3 vendors, multiple dev kits on-hand)
• Nordic nRF52840-DK up
  
  • GPIO, UART, FreeRTOS, etc.
• Nordic nRF52832-DK up
  
  • PDM, etc.
• nRF5 SDK v15.3.0
  • Segger & IAR
  • Install, compile & deploy

Needs:

• Bluetooth hello world with demo to iPhone

I have spent much time attempting and debugging your demo content with no success yet, reaching out for assistance. Let me know if this is possible!

[Simon]

Could you be more specific and tell me exactly what is failing? When debugging, could check what function is failing and what the error return value is? Could you enable logging and provide the logs to this ticket?

I didn't know we had a "Bluetooth hello world example", is it an example you have developed yourself? If not, could you point me to which example you are talking about?

Best regards,

Simon

[Justin Reina]

Ok, lets start from the top -

• Board - nRF52840 DK
• Example - "BLE Peripheral" -> "BLE Blinky Application"
• Step #0 - Program the SoftDevice

Status:

• nRFgo Studio does not show the board in the Device Manager and is missing the 'Program SoftDevice' tab
• Keil option tries to use nRF Device Family Pack v8.27.0, which is no longer available
• The makefile throws the error "Please set values in: ... according to the actual configuration of your system"

Thoughts?

[Simon]

I am sorry, but it seems like the documentation is outdated, and gives you the wrong information, I will report this internally and make sure it gets updated. The information given there stems from the time when the nRF51 series was in the spotlight and is not relevant for the nRF52840.  I would recommend you to use SEGGER Embedded Studio (SES) as an IDE, check out this video series to get started. In SES, you don't need to flash the SoftDevice separately as explained in the documentation you referred to, it will happen automatically when you flash an example using a SoftDevice (e.g. the BLE Blinky Application).

Justin Reina said:

nRFgo Studio does not show the board in the Device Manager and is missing the 'Program SoftDevice' tab

 nRFgo Studio is outdated, please use nRF Connect for Desktop instead. Within the nRF Connect app, use the programmer app to manually flash the SoftDevice. However, if you use SES, you don't need to do this

 

Justin Reina said:

Keil option tries to use nRF Device Family Pack v8.27.0, which is no longer available

 If you would like to use Keil instead of SES, then take a look at this thread, which discusses this issue..

 

Justin Reina said:

The makefile throws the error "Please set values in: ... according to the actual configuration of your system"

 I am not sure about this one. However, due to the reason explained above I guess you don't need to figure this out.

Best regards,

Simon