how to use ant &BLE softdevice?

RE: how to use ant &BLE softdevice?

wzszzxj — Wed, 04 Nov 2020 02:21:30 GMT

Hi,Kenneth:

Thank you for your reply, Pls close this topic,thank you!

RE: how to use ant &BLE softdevice?

Kenneth — Mon, 07 Sep 2020 07:32:54 GMT

BLE can only communicate with BLE, and ANT with ANT, and our other 2.4GHz protocols such as ESB and Gazell, can only communicate with ESB and Gazell.

All nRF52-chips can run all above protocols, only depend on the softdevice and software you build your application on.

Best regards,
Kenneth

RE: how to use ant &BLE softdevice?

wzszzxj — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 14:09:02 GMT

HI，Kenneth：

Thanks for you explaination! So it means I use ANT as master,and have to use another ANT as slave making a pair,right? But is 2.4G mentioned above fixed protocol in it? I hope it is not. It must be in common use.Is that right?

RE: how to use ant &BLE softdevice?

Kenneth — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 13:08:18 GMT

Both ANT and BLE use 2.4GHz yes, but we also have our own proprietary protocols, we refer to these as "2.4GHz": Check out:

https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/sdk_nrf5_v17.0.0/esb_users_guide.html

https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/sdk_nrf5_v17.0.0/gzll_02_user_guide.html

RE: how to use ant &BLE softdevice?

wzszzxj — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 12:17:43 GMT

Hi,Kenneth:

And,by the way,What is the deference btween ANT and 2.4G in the softdevice? I ask that only because of below:

I have considered of that the ANT is equal to 2.4G,but now?

RE: how to use ant &BLE softdevice?

wzszzxj — Wed, 02 Sep 2020 09:11:32 GMT

HI,Kenneth:

Thanks!

RE: how to use ant &BLE softdevice?

Kenneth — Tue, 01 Sep 2020 07:54:57 GMT

Hi,

The nRF52840 and nRF52833 use the same ANT+BLE softdevices:
https://www.thisisant.com/developer/components/nrf52832/

I suggest to download the latest nRF5 SDK (currently that is nRF5 SDK v17), then open one of the projects that is closest to your product:
\nRF5_SDK_17.0.0_9d13099\examples\ant

If you want both ANT and BLE support, there is only one project that does this out of the box:
\nRF5_SDK_17.0.0_9d13099\examples\multiprotocol\ble_ant_app_hrm

FYI: Projects placed in a pca10056 folder are setup for nRF52840, while pca10100 are setup for nRF52833. To convert a project from pca10056 to pca10100 you may follow this:
https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/64518/nrf52833-development/263204

Comparsion of nRF52-variants:
https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/struct_nrf52/struct/nrf52.html

Best regards,
Kenneth