nRF52840 Thread Remote control App

[Netanel]

Hello, 

We are currently evaluating the nRF52840 with Thread technology with the Raspberry Pi as the border router to the internet. I wanted to know if there is any mobile app provided by Nordic to control Thread enabled devices ? Like in the video examples that are shown in the link below:

https://www.nordicsemi.com/Software-and-tools/Software/nRF5-SDK-for-Thread-and-Zigbee/GetStarted

Looking forward to hearing from you

Best Regards

Netanel 

[Charlie]

Hi Netanel,

The APP shown in the demo videos is nRF Connect for Mobile. It is used to communicate with BLE devices. The demos show that nRF52840 can run Thread and BLE simultaneously. 

We do not have APP specifically for Thread Remote control. The phone is not able to connect to the Thread network directly like Bluetooth. On another hand, you can send any TCP/UDP message to the Thread device once it connects with the internet through the board router.

Best regards,

Charlie

[Netanel]

Hi Charlie, 

Thank you for your reply. 

What about using the nRF ToolBox app ? Will that also work ? If we communicate with the nRF52840 via BLE and it will concurrently talk to other devices via Thread. 

Another option I was thinking is talking to the device via the cloud using the boarder router and then there would be no need to use the BLE as all the device would communicate to each other via Thread rather than connecting using the nRF ToolBox app to communicate with a single device via BLE. 

Let me know what you think

Looking forward to hearing from you

Best Regards

Netanel

[Charlie]

The UART utility in nRF TooBox app should also work as long as they can build a BLE connection with the device. You can refer to BLE and Thread examples.

The second option is general and clear. You do not need any BLE converter in this case.

Charlie