Mesure the nRF51 throughput with a smartphone

[Remi]

Hi.

I'm working with the nRF51422 devlopement kit (pca10028) and I need to mesure the highest throughput between the nRF51 DK and a smartphone. I have seen several post about that but they only talk about the board side but no on the smartphone side. So I don't know how to do a simple throughput mesurement.

I also have a nRF51 Dongle (pca10031) but I heard that it support only one packet per event so I want to test in real conditions (with a smartphones).

Working with:

• nRF51 DK (pca10028)
• nRF51 Dongle (pca10031)
• Win 7
• Samsung Galaxy S3
• Iphone 5
• other Android and Iphone smartphone.

Thanks

[Ulrich Myhre]

Hi Remi,

The Master Control Panel 3.7.0 and above should have increased the throughput by a lot, so this could be useful for some initial testing at least.

The Master Control Panel app for Android has an "Automated testing" feature (currently in beta) that allows you to script certain actions supported in the app. Have a look here for the documentation.

For iOS you could look into LightBlue. I am not familiar with their product, but I believe they also have some scripting support.