RE: nRF Beacon S110 v8 DFU upgrade

Olivier — Sat, 18 Apr 2015 13:02:32 GMT

Ok. I've ported my application to SDK7.1 and the upload works now.

RE: nRF Beacon S110 v8 DFU upgrade

Stefan Birnir Sverrisson — Fri, 17 Apr 2015 15:07:42 GMT

Hi Olivier

I can not make it work either with MCP 3.8 and the nrf.exe method described here to generate zip file for SDK 7.1.0 bootloader. The Beacon kit 1.1.0 contains S110 7.1.0 and bootloader from SDK 7.1.0

One thing I noticed though is that you have option --sd-req 0x64 which is the FWID for S110 8.0.0 softdevice, see this thread. You should include the ID of that sofdevice instead in your init packet, i.e. --sd-req 0x5A. Including a wildcard option should also work great, i.e. to have --sd-req 0xFFFE

For now, I can only recommend to use MCP 3.7.1 and the method described on this link in order to upload softdevice/bootloader/application to the beacon kit 1.1.0. I think anyway you would need to update both softdevice and bootloader at once, in order to have compatible S110 8.0.0 and SDK 8.0.0 bootloader after the update. Otherwise you will end up with S110 8.0.0 and SDK 7.1.0 bootloader, which are not compatible, see the nRF51 compatibility matrix.

RE: nRF Beacon S110 v8 DFU upgrade

oceanide — Wed, 15 Apr 2015 23:16:53 GMT

The nrf.exe is available at master control panel v3.8.x. When I have tested DFU with latest master control panel on pca20006, it was not working successfully so that I installed again mcp 3.7.1.8567 that modified lib/dfu folder.