IS IT POSSIBLE TO RUN BLE STACK WITHOUT SOFT DEVICE ?

[santhosh kumar.s]

Hi,

present i am using nRF52840-DK for to develop the BLE application. here i am facing the debugging issue.

i.e. in my board i programmed S140 soft device. so after that i flashed BLE peripheral example.

Here if i want to debug the application i am unable to do it, because baground softdevice is running. and  i don't have a control on the soft device.

So is there any possibility i can control soft devices also ? can i add all source files of soft device to my project ??

so that i can keep breakpoints and i can debug the code and i can make the changes as per my application.

if someone provides a solution for it, it will be a great for to proceed further 

Thanks & Regards

Santhosh Kumar

[Turbo J]

santhosh kumar.s said:

Here if i want to debug the application i am unable to do it, because baground softdevice is running.

Try "monitor mode debugging".

Other than that, I recommend RTT logging and using brain.

[santhosh kumar.s]

Dear Turbo,

Thank you for your quick response, 

without soft device can i run BLE functionality ?

And i want  to implement a mesh network please assist how can i implement  ? and i gone through the Mesh SDK and mesh terminology from a month ?

my application is simple the Nordic devices should be in a mesh network, and it should take the beacons from the tags and should pass to the network.

  Please help me to build the abou application !

Thanks & Regards

Santhosh Kumar

[Karl Ylvisaker]

Hello Santhosh Kumar,

santhosh kumar.s said:

without soft device can i run BLE functionality ?

No. The SoftDevice is our implementation of the BLE stack, and without it you will not be able to conform to the BLE specifications. You may of course utilize the radio peripheral directly for a proprietary radio protocol, but I would recommend that you stick to using the SoftDevice unless you know what you are getting into.

santhosh kumar.s said:

And i want  to implement a mesh network please assist how can i implement  ?

 Have you seen the Mesh SDK and its Getting started guide?
I highly recommend starting wite these, if you are looking into using mesh topology.

Best regards,
Karl

P.S You may also find this ticket helpful to read. It is old, but the concepts still holds, and goes together with the link provided by @Turbo.