nRF52840 Dongle Versions and boot log

RE: nRF52840 Dongle Versions and boot log

Jørgen Holmefjord — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 08:29:06 GMT

PCA10056 is the board name for the nRF52840 DK. You can use any production version of the s140 softdevice (6.x.x and 7.x.x) on the dongle. The pca10059 projects in the SDK are designed for running on the nRF52840 Dongle.

RE: nRF52840 Dongle Versions and boot log

wyattb — Tue, 03 Mar 2020 19:33:01 GMT

Can I still use the older softdevice such as pca10056/s140 with the dongle?

RE: nRF52840 Dongle Versions and boot log

Jørgen Holmefjord — Thu, 27 Feb 2020 09:55:31 GMT

Hi,

When using the dongle together with the nRF Connect BLE application, the dongle will be flashed with a connectivity firmware, allowing the application to scan and connect to BLE devices. This log message does not provide any information about the capabilities of the devices itself, it is only related to the API version of the softdevice used in the firmware. The BLE application in nRF Connect depends on the pc-ble-driver-js library, which is not yet updated to use later softdevice APIs, this means that it does not support Bluetooth 5.x features as of yet.

SDK v16.0.0 support softdevice API v7, this should be reflected in the defines in your project. SD API v6 was supported in SDK v15.x.0.

Best regards,
Jørgen