nRF8002 as a beacon?

RE: nRF8002 as a beacon?

Asbjørn — Mon, 23 Feb 2015 08:41:25 GMT

Yes, there's and ADC available on the nRF51822 that will enable you to read the battery voltage and use this as payload in your advertisements.

RE: nRF8002 as a beacon?

baskan1 — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 14:44:54 GMT

Thank you very much Asbjørn, I believe, you saved lots of time of beginners, by clarifing that nRF8002 can not be used as a (non-connected advertising only) beacon. And also thank you for the link..

So I decide to go with nRF8122 for "battery level advertising only" application.

As I wrote in my question above, I would like to advertise just battery level. Is it possible to read battery level with "nRF51x22 Reference schematics and layout" in nRF51822-PS document (page 79)?

Since , it seems that there is no mention for in-circuit battery level monitoring in nRF51822.. (This is another question, I coulndnt find an answer in documents)

Thank you for your help so far.

RE: nRF8002 as a beacon?

Asbjørn — Tue, 17 Feb 2015 13:02:13 GMT

The nRF8002 has a limited set of profiles and services that it supports. Beacon is not one of them. So I would recommend to have a look at the nRF51822 instead to use in beacon applications.

For the nRF8002 there are two different low power modes, sleep requires a button push. Idle will wake up on timer.

For development on the nRF51822 I would recommend to start by having a look at the information available in the blog post here: devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../