switching beacon mode to pairing/connectable mode without module reset nRF52832

[harshg]

Hello,

I am a newbie and need some help deciding the path to perform the following requirement. Any help is appreciated.

 Requirement:

I have Rigado BMD-350 module currently advertising in beacon mode. 

I would like to switch from beacon mode to connectable BLE mode (pairing mode) when a cell phone comes close to it and would like to connect.

Once connection is established, I would like to receive data from the cell phone and store it. and then close the connection and move back to beacon mode.

BMD-350 comes with BMDware which is out of date and is no longer supported. Instead, I would like to write open source code for nrf52832 (nrf module in BMD-350) to achieve the above requirement.

What is the best path to go about this requirement. Also which soft device is recommended?

Thank you

[Einar Thorsrud]

Hi,

This log shows that there is a timeout in nRF Connect app on the peer (central). What happens on the nRF side? A typical reason for seeing a timeout when tweaking nRF code is that an error has happened on the nRF side. Have you debugged on the nRF side to see what is happening? I recommend you test a debug build with logging enabled. In most cases that will point to the error. If not, you need to debug a bit more. (You may want to read An introduction to error handling in nRF5 projects).

[harshg]

I am going through the error handling as you suggested. Meanwhile, I wanted to build the ble_pheripheral_eddystone application in nRF5_SDK_15.3.0_59ac345 which is giving me build error in SES

cannot find ../../../../../../external/micro-ecc/nrf52hf_armgcc/armgcc/micro_ecc_lib_nrf52.a: No such file or directory

I tried the following 2 steps. but error still exists

1) Download and install Windows 32-bit

File: gcc-arm-none-eabi-6-2017-q2-update-win32-sha1.exe (82.57 MB)

https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/open-source-software/developer-tools/gnu-toolchain/gnu-rm/downloads/6-2017-q2-update

2) Run build_all.sh or build_all.bat located in ..\nRF5_SDK_15.0.0_a53641a\external\micro-ecc

[Einar Thorsrud]

Hi,

Running build_all.bat will resolve this error, provided the script runs without any problems. Can you copy-paste the output of the script? The error message should let us uknow what you are missing. (One common problem is if you don't have make in your path).

[harshg]

The script window opens and closes in a flash. Not sure how to copy paste the output.

How to add make file in path??

[harshg]

All the sub folders have makefile in them