Programming nRF51822 smart beacon kit

[Sarah]

Hi,

Where can I find the instructions on what tools need to be installed to reprogram the nRF51822 beacons? I haven't been able to find it in the documentation provided with the kit. I only own the smart beacons and do not have the development kit.

Thanks

[FormerMember]

In order to program the beacon not using DFU, you will need a programmer. I would recommend you to take a look at the thread "How can I program nRF51822-Beacon" .

[RK]

Should be more than 3.0v unless the battery is getting old when it could be marginal. As far as I can see the beacon kit doesn't have a protection diode so you should get the full battery voltage (on some of the other kits you lose 0.7v through the diode making battery power useless for debugging).

For the sake of ruling it out I'd measure it anyway or power the board from 3.3v off the DK. If that doesn't work, start back on the wiring and check it again, I don't have more ideas.

I just took my DK and used it to program an old nrf51822 eval kit, and that was fine and then I plugged it into a TI board I have and it found that with no problem too, and programmed it, so I know that debug out does work on that board.

I doubt by the way that nrfgo studio knows what's connected to the debugger, so it'll probably show 'DK', that may be unrelated to what the segger is actually programming.