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

The nRF52810 is not shipped with an application already flashed onto it, so you would have to at least flash and download one of our example projects in order to make sure that it is on and transmitting on the BLE network. Luckily, there isn't any actual programming necessary to make one of the examples run on nRF52810 hardware. All you have to do will be to transfer an emulated project (PCA10040e) to be nRF52810 compatible. This is done by removing the DEVELOP_IN_NRF52832 and NRFX_COREDEP_DELAY_US_LOOP_CYCLES defines from the compile flag in the IDE you're using.

You will need a J-Link debugger or an nRF5 DK in order to be able to flash this onto your board however.

Best regards,

Simon

[Dylan V]

Great!

Thanks for your answer. I am assuming this would work for both the nRF52810 and nRF52840 since they are from the same family of chips?

Best,

Dylan