Spent $500 and still can't start :-(

[michurin]

the very similar issue Friday, October 04 2013, 02:23 I have staerter kit + development kit. I have installed all required software and can't loat example code because I can't find example projects nor source files.

I can't find examples(may they haven't been installed then why?). c:\Keil\C51\ISD51\Examples\Nordic_nRF\ is the only examples related folder but it doesn't contain any ble code

Please advice. Thank you in advance.

[i]COMMENT Ole Morten This sounds like something that should have been posted as a separate question, but the SDK you have installed is for our nRF8001 chip. If you're working with the nRF51822, you need to get the nRF51 SDK, which is available on the download tab of the nRF51822 Development Kit and nRF51822 Evaluation Kit pages. If you see a red lock there, you need to enter a product key from a kit to get access to it.[/i][u][/u]

[michurin]

Guys,

Sorry for my frustration: I've actually spent over $650. The first Devkit was used, damaged and didn't have a key, so I had to buy a replacement, ship it back and still waiting for refund. All my purchases were with expedited shipping i.e. expensive. And I was waiting literally weeks to be able to start.

ARM chip is much better and I'm gladly accepting your offer > The only thing I could offer as a compensation would have been to check if I were allowed to send you a nRF51822 Development Kit for free, but it seems you're not very interested in that.

BTW STM32 is one of my potential choices as well as AVR: I'm currently using both.

I was able yesterday to run HRM, so today my mood is better.

My goal still the same: to run examples using DEBUG mode and see interaction with the ACI library. Looks like to me the only major thing needs to be done migrating to any different MCU is to port hal library. Is AVR(8-bit) library available?

Thanks Gil, thanks Ole: "The same things look different through the prism of time." I'm moving forward but not as fast as I'd like and time zone difference takes huge toll as well.

[Ole Morten]

Sorry for the delay, but I had to check this internally. If you supply me with an address to ship it to in a private message, I'll make sure an nRF51822 Development Kit is sent your way.

As I said previously, there is work ongoing on making an official release and structure for the Arduino SDK, which should be a lot easier to port to a regular AVR as well, compared to the normal nRF8001 SDK. This effort should result in a public release hopefully next week. You can take a look at the forum thread I linked to, and the webinar there, if you want to get started with an Arduino or similar right away: http://forumarchive.bluetooth.org/Pages/Forum.aspx?action=ViewPosts&fid=6&tid=63

As for your trouble with the nRF8001 kit, I suggest we take this in the support portal, since it seems that it will be a lot of back and forth, rather than a single question and answer, and that fits better in the support portal workflow.