Thingy:52 Communication

[Marry]

Hello! I set-up my Thingy:52 devices, using the nRF52840 Development Kit, according to the GitHub tutorial.

Now, I would like to understand more about the communication of the thingys.

Do you have any suggestions on how I should start, in order to:

(1) send a message from one thingy to the other and intercept that message with the dev board, or using my phone? Or,

(2) send a message from the thingy boards to the development board & trigger some LED on the dev board?

I don't know which option might be more advantageous to begin with, so if you have some idea, I would highly appreciate your guidance.

Thank you in advance! Marry

[Jared]

Hi,

See our nRF52 examples on BLE UART and Blinky to get an introduction on how the BLE communication works. You can port the examples to the Thingy by changing the board file of a nRF52832 project.

regards

Jared

[Marry]

Hello Jared and thanks for your reply and the two references!

However, it is not clear to me what I should do. I see that the first link has examples on nRF52833 with the S140 SoftDevice. Could you please explain to me how I should run it on thingy? What file(s) should I change and what modifications more specifically should I do? I am asking this, because I'm overwhelmed by the number of files and it can be complex to go through all of them and understand each.

Thanks again! Marry

[Jared]

Hi,

The Thingy:52 is basically an nRF52832 with lots of external sensors. We usually recommend experienced users to develop with the nRF Thingy SDK, but since you're new to the ecosystem I would rather suggest that you start with the nRF52840 development kit and the examples from the "normal" SDK. You could then proceed to develop on the thingy when you have a good overview over the ecosystem. 

 

Marry said:

I see that the first link has examples on nRF52833 with the S140 SoftDevice.

 This is only a note, the SDK has examples for the nRF52840 etc.

regards

Jared

[Marry]

Jared said:

The Thingy:52 is basically an nRF52832 with lots of external sensors.

Oh, I did not know that. 

Jared said:

suggest that you start with the nRF52840 development kit

Ok, I got it. Thanks a lot!

[Marry]

Hello, Jared! I was wondering if I could ask you something else regarding Thingy:52. (I also made a different topic, but unfortunately I have no answer for the past few days).

So, could you please give me an idea of how to enable/observe the relay feature of the Thingys? Or any part of code/function which I should study? I appreciate any kind of help. I would need this, to extend the range of communication between my phone and the board, using more Thingys in a Mesh topology. 

Thank you very much & have a great day!