nRF51422 DK PCA10028 and nRF52832 DK PCA10040 - BLE

[jdelapena]

Hello,

I have 2 nRF5x development boards:

• nRF51422 PCA10028
• nRF52832 PCA10040
  
   

I wanted to learn the BLE basics such as pairing, advertising, scanning, etc, using the ble_uart_app example.

Can I have the two development boards communicate with each other knowing that they run on different SDKs and chips? I am planning to use the nRF51 board as the central and the nRF52 board as central/peripheral.

Follow up question: Upon exploring nRF51 SDK 12.3.0, I did not see the "ses" folder under SDK/examples/ble_central/ble_app_uart_c/PCA10028/s130

Is there a way to develop using SES on nRF51422?

Thank you.

Cheers,

Jade

[Simonr]

Hi Jade

Yes, as long as both devices use BLE, they should be able to communicate. Having an nRF51 for peripheral and an nRF52 for central for example is no problem at all. That's correct, we didn't implement SES until SDK 14.0.0, and SDK 12.3.0 was the last one to support nRF51 examples. You can check out this guide by my colleague which explains how you can export a Keil µVision project to SEGGER Embedded Studios. However, if you're just looking to run the ble_app_uart example on your nRF51 DK you might just want to build and flash it in Keil µVision or use the nRF Connect Programmer application instead.

Due to the summer vacation period here in Norway, we are low on staff at the moment, so delayed replies are expected. Sorry about the inconvenience!

Best regards,

Simon

[jdelapena]

Hello Simon,

Thank you very much for your response.

Enjoy your holidays!

Jade