RE: How about the BLE and Zigbee dual protocol solution?

Henry_Chou — Fri, 08 Jan 2021 01:02:02 GMT

Hi! Marte:

Have a nice day! Thanks for answer.

I will study it.

Firstly, we will delicate in nRF52840.

RE: How about the BLE and Zigbee dual protocol solution?

Marte Myrvold — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:59:53 GMT

Hi,

The supported boards for Zigbee, which can be found here, are:

SoCs	Boards	SoftDevices
nRF52840_xxAA	PCA10056	S140 v7.0.1
nRF52840_xxAA	PCA10059	S140 v7.0.1
nRF52840_xxAA	PCA10112 (nRF21540)	-
nRF52833_xxAA	PCA10100	S140 v7.0.1

[quote user=""]\nRF5_SDK_17.0.2_d674dde\examples\802_15_4\wireless_uart [/quote]

The wireless_uart example is not a Zigbee example, but an IEEE 802.15.4 example, which is not the same. Zigbee is built upon IEEE 802.15.4, specifically the PHY (physical) layer and the MAC (media access control) layer, but in addition to this, Zigbee has several layers on top of these two (network layer, application support sublayer, application framework, and Zigbee Device Objects). If you want to work with a Zigbee example, you should take a look at the nRF5 SDK for Thread and Zigbee. Please note that the latest version of this SDK (v4.1.0) is based on nRF5 SDK v16.0.0, and not v17.0.2.

If you want multiprotocol support (Zigbee and BLE), there's examples for this in the Zigbee SDK, which can be found here. Multiprotocol with Zigbee is done using dynamic multiprotocol, where the radio hardware is time-sliced between the protocols. If you have a BLE example you want to add dynamic multiprotocol Zigbee support to, there's a guide for this here.

Best regards,

Marte