Bluetooth SDK - Help Getting Started

RE: Bluetooth SDK - Help Getting Started

Simon — Fri, 08 Nov 2019 14:17:56 GMT

Where did you find that project? It was a little different from mine, and some changes to the SDK was required. The original ble_app_blinky example should build out of the box. If you got the project from somebody else, I would recommend you to talk to them.

Try removing the files "app_timer2.c", "drv_rtc.c" and "drv_rtc.h" from nRF5_SDK_15.3.0_59ac345\components\libraries\timer\experimental to nRF5_SDK_15.3.0_59ac345\components\libraries\timer. It seems like the people you inherited the project from (if you did) have done so.

Best regards,

Simon

RE: Bluetooth SDK - Help Getting Started

Justin Reina — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 17:07:24 GMT

Hi Simon,

I tried SES this morning and it would not compile, see below for example reference -

ble_app_blinky_peripheral (import to SES)

Here was the console output -

SES Compile - Console

Interesting, let me know your thoughts when available

RE: Bluetooth SDK - Help Getting Started

Simon — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:04:39 GMT

Do that, and if you encounter any problems, please ask.

Best regards,

Simon

RE: Bluetooth SDK - Help Getting Started

Justin Reina — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:43:45 GMT

SES is great, thank you, I will try this morning!

I was only using Keil as it was the listed recommendation, I will let you know what I find

RE: Bluetooth SDK - Help Getting Started

Simon — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:03:17 GMT

I am sorry, but it seems like the documentation is outdated, and gives you the wrong information, I will report this internally and make sure it gets updated.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).

[quote user="justinmreina"]nRFgo Studio does not show the board in the Device Manager and is missing the 'Program SoftDevice' tab[/quote]

nRFgo Studio is outdated, please use nRF Connect for Desktop instead.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

[quote user="justinmreina"]Keil option tries to use nRF Device Family Pack v8.27.0, which is no longer available[/quote]

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

[quote user="justinmreina"]The makefile throws the error "Please set values in: ... according to the actual configuration of your system"[/quote]

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

RE: Bluetooth SDK - Help Getting Started

Justin Reina — Thu, 07 Nov 2019 05:31:44 GMT

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?

RE: Bluetooth SDK - Help Getting Started

Simon — Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:33:56 GMT

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