NRF52840 PHY Coded

[DaveC]

We used the NRF52840 in our product.  I want to experiment with Long Range BLE using PHY Coded.  I will be using:

-Peripheral - The Product

-Master NRF52840 DK

Are there any code examples for configuring the Master and Peripheral?

[Jimmy Wong]

You can find the example code at github.com/.../nrf52-ble-range-estimator.

[DaveC]

The link gives a 404 error for me?  Could you give the full path?

[Jimmy Wong]

You can find https://www.novelbits.io/long-range-bluetooth-coded-phy/ or 
jimmywongiot.com/.../.

[Vidar Berg]

You may also review the changes I made in the example I posted here: https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/f/nordic-q-a/40476/unable-to-convert-to-long-range-after-looking-at-umpteen-examples-- . It's based on an older SDK version, but the changes should still apply to newer versions.

[DaveC]

Thanks,  The 1st link is a good overview (I read it yesterday) but I was looking for how to enable PHY Coded using the Nordic SDK from the Nordic SDK Documentation.  I will look at how you did it your sample code and apply to mine.  Though I do find the Espressif ESP_32 documentation much easier to navigate than Nordic.

[Vidar Berg]

The documentation is a bit split between SDK modules documentation and the Softdevice API documentation when it comes to setting up an advertiser/scanner with CODED PHY.

Maybe you have seen them already, but here are some doc. links which I you may find relevant:

Advertising using extended advertising PDUs - message sequence chart illustrating how an extended advertisment set is configured and used

sd_ble_gap_adv_set_configure - Function for configuring an advertisment set

Advertising Module  used by most ble peripheral examples to manage advertising

Scanning Module 

[DaveC]

Thanks.  Though from a user/integrator perspective it would be useful to have some feature based documentation, e.g. to use PHY Coded use these API's rather that have the information spread throughout several documents

[Vidar Berg]

I definitely see your point. I will report this internally for future improvement. I think this documentation could be added to the existing  Advertising and Scanning module documentation.