RE: NRF5340-PDK software tool

Hung Bui — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 15:09:28 GMT

Hi Woo Hung Kai,

Please be aware that both Bluetooth MESH in nRF Connect SDK and nRF5340 are not at production level.
There is a bug here that we are looking at.
I would suggest you to test Bluetooth Mesh with nRF52. Also try to get started with other Bluetooth example in addition to mesh.

RE: NRF5340-PDK software tool

Nikosant03 — Wed, 19 Aug 2020 12:23:27 GMT

Hi hkwoo,

1. SDK stands for Software Development Kit. The SDK contains examples to work around and start your learning curve for developing wireless products. It also contains drivers, libraries and softdevices. Softdevice is the BLE protocol stack developed by Nordic. You CANNOT develop a BLE application without the soft device. So the SDK is mandatory

2. The nRF connect for Desktop is a platform that integrades helpfull development tools. The tools that I mostly use are the "Bluetooth Low Energy" and the "Programmer" tools. However, the nRF connect for Desktop is not mandatory for developing and you can get started without it.

Now, you can see THIS tutorial for BLE MESH and you can also dowload the nRF5 SDK for Mesh.

To getting started you basically need

1. PDK

2. SDK

3. IDE (I'm using SEGGER)

This is a good start

Nick