Raspberry Pi 4 and nRF52810 Compatibility

[Dylan V]

Hello,

I am looking to start an independent project this month. One of the tasks will be to use BLE to relay information from a custom PCB board with the nRF52810 chip to a device such as a Raspberry Pi. 

I know that Raspberry Pi 4 has BLE compatibility, but I was wondering if this specific chip would work with the on-board Raspberry Pi bluetooth chip.

Thanks in advance and sorry if a similar question has already been asked.

Dylan

[Simonr]

Hi Dylan

All BLE products should be able to communicate with one another, so there shouldn't be any problems having an nRF52810 transceiving data to/from a Raspberry Pi 4.

Best regards,

Simon

[Dylan V]

Hi Simon, 

Thanks for your response!

I am trying to figure out if the PCB needs a micro-controller with "client side" code to send data to the raspberry pi.

Is there any way to connect with the BLE chip without needing to have c level code to establish a connection from the BLE chip side?

Is there some low level code that runs on start up on the BLE chip and is this accessible from an external BLE device (eg raspberry pi)?

The goal of this sub-project would be to just to figure out if the BLE chip is on. I was wondering if I could scan for "on" ble chips from the raspberry pi without needing to have any client side code on the PCB?

Thanks again for your time,

Dylan