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[fgeldenh]

I have been developing products for nRF52832 and nRF52840 for some years now. I am aware that you have released the NRF Connect SDK. To date I have only used the nRF5 SDK. although I did get a small application going with NRF Connect. It seems to me that compared to nRF5 SDK NRF Connect SDK is lacking in documentation and functionality. Take for instance a simple issue like changing the advertisement name on the fly. I spent hours trying to find out how to do this in NRF Connect to no avail.

I am missing something?

Can I continue with NRF5 SDK and know that it will be future proof?

Thank You

Francois Geldenhuys

[awneil]

You might want to watch this webinar recording (from 5 March 2021):

https://webinars.nordicsemi.com/understand-the-nrf-connect-sdk-2

In it they say that nRF5 SDK is not going to be developed further - it will just get bugfix & security updates.

[Marte Myrvold]

Hi Francois,

We will still continue to support nRF5 SDK, and as awneil said, there will still be bug fixes and security updates. If you are already developing or have developed an application using nRF5 SDK there is no problem continuing with that SDK, but be aware that it will not receive any updates besides what is mentioned. So there will be no new features or functionality added. If this is not important to you, you can continue with nRF5 SDK if you prefer that, but if you want to be able to use new features that are not in the SDK already, I would recommend switching to NCS.

As for changing the advertisement name in NCS, you can use the function bt_set_name() to set the device name, and then bt_le_adv_update_data() to update advertising. You can see an example of this being used in the ble_handler module in the Connectivity Bridge application here.

Best regards,

Marte

[awneil]

Marte Myrvold said:

it will not receive any updates besides what is mentioned

Which includes support for any new chips, AIUI ?

[Marte Myrvold]

Hi,

New nRF Series will not have support in nRF5 SDK, as far as I know, only the nRF51 and nRF52 Series.

Best regards,

Marte

[fgeldenh]

Thank you all for your inputs. I suspected that I will be forced to redo all our products. I just hope that the NRF Connect environment will be around for a while as it seems I am in for a large learning curve again.It would be great if the documentation was up to the same standard as is NRF5 SDK.