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nRF52833-DK blinky problem

Hello! I have the following issue with my nRF52833 board: I am in the first stage of working with it and I wanted to try the simple blinky example.

However, since there is no pca10100 hex file in the examples/peripheral/blinky/hex folder, I decided to load pca10040. Now, my board seems to be irresponsive, i.e. LED1 doesn't blink when the board is powered on. My questions are:

1. Is there any possibility to reset the board (so that I start again from scratch with my test)?

2. I suppose I didn't damage some internal circuit by loading the pca10040, but I'm not completely sure - since I don't know exactly what it does. Could you please explain me?

3. Is there any hex file for the nRF52833 board with pca10100? (although I still don't know what is the difference between all versions).

Thank you in advance!

  • Hi Karl! It is absolutely fine! I imagined that the holiday season might be one reason for no reply Airplane

    Thanks for explaining me! This week I am having a break from the project, because I have exams - I will come back in a week with a complete reply. 

    Thank you very much & have a great week until then Sun with face

    Marry

  • Hello Marry,

    Thank you for your understanding!

    Marry said:

    Thanks for explaining me! This week I am having a break from the project, because I have exams - I will come back in a week with a complete reply. 

    Thank you very much & have a great week until then

    No problem, I hope you have a great week as well.

    For future reference, if the questions you have diverges from the original ticket you opened, then it would be best that you open a new ticket for the unrelated questions. You may also tag me in the ticket if it is a followup question to a previous ticket.
    Creating new, specific tickets will make it easier for others experiencing similar issues to navigate the forum.

    Good luck with your exams! :)

    Best regards,
    Karl

  • Hi Karl!

    Thank for your feedback! In the meantime, I abandoned the idea of writing a bit in a register. Because I found the Blinky Notification App - which you suggested as well. Now I am trying to understand the actual code, to do other modifications; and I opened new threads, like you said.

    My next step would be to integrate Thingys:52 as relay nodes, between the phone and the board. I created a new case here. Would you have any suggestions for that? 

    On the one hand - I think this feature is already there, in the code running on the boards.

    On the other hand - I would like to see where/how it is implemented

    may also tag me in the ticket

    - Thank you so much! I will do that Slight smile

    Thank you again for all your very valuable input! You are no.1 help on DevZone! TrophyBeer

  • Hello Marry!

    Marry said:
    Thank for your feedback! In the meantime, I abandoned the idea of writing a bit in a register. Because I found the Blinky Notification App - which you suggested as well.

    I am happy that you found the example useful! It sounded like it would be a good fit to demonstrate the functionality you described earlier. The BLE part of the code is the most daunting to familiarize with, but know that it is much the same between the different BLE examples, so once you are familiar with the BLE process, you are familiar with most of the examples's BLE part right off the bat! :) 

    Marry said:
    My next step would be to integrate Thingys:52 as relay nodes, between the phone and the board. I created a new case here. Would you have any suggestions for that? 

    I see from your other post that you are building a mesh network, and unfortunately I am not too familiar with the Mesh SDK - Luckily, Msromero is quite the expert on the subject! :)

    Marry said:

    On the one hand - I think this feature is already there, in the code running on the boards.

    On the other hand - I would like to see where/how it is implemented

    This depends, what firmware are you currently running on your Thingy:52's?
    If you are running the mesh demo that Msromeo mentioned, then you could find the project code in the ses directory ( if you are using segger embedded studio ).
    Please do not hesitate to ask if you have questions about the code! I also suggest that questions in regards to the mesh demo is posted in the other ticket.

    Marry said:
    Thank you again for all your very valuable input! You are no.1 help on DevZone!

    No problem, I am happy to help. You are too kind!

    Best regards,
    Karl

  • Hi Karl,

    what firmware are you currently running on your Thingy:52's

    - Yes, I am running the Mesh Demo from GitHub with the Light Switch control. 

    I also suggest that questions in regards to the mesh demo is posted in the other ticket

    - Agree, I will continue there.

    Thanks again for all your help!  Beers  Kind regards, Marry  

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