Using Arduino framework for nrf9160 development

[Finny Philip Biju]

We are developing a controller for an Electric vehicle charging station. Already developed and successfully running the firmware on ESP32 for which we had used platformio and Arduino framework. We have to use RFID, J1772 charging protocol, LTE and AWS IoT. The existing firmware was developed using the required libraries. I would like to know if In can make use of the existing firmware we had made, with necessary changes for nrf9160. Is it possible to develop custom firmware for nrf9160 without the use of Zephyr RTOS?

Zephyr RTOS makes things easy, but how can I include Arduino libraries like MFRC522 RFID libraries and other libraries which I will require for my purpose?

[Heidi-Irene Harvey Sollie]

Hi!

Zephyr has some documentation on how to include third-party libraries here and here.

But I would assume it depends on how "arduino-y" the library is. Zephyr doesn't provide the Arduino runtime libraries etc.

We don't support nRF9160 development without Zephyr RTOS so if you go this route, there is a lot of Nordic provided support that won't be available to you.

Best regards,

Heidi 

[Finny Philip Biju]

I want to use MFRC522 RFID through spi connection. Are there any resources to get that done, how can I use this library, or any other solutions for using an RFID card reader with nrf9160?

[Heidi-Irene Harvey Sollie]

Hi! 

Unfortunately, there is nothing available in NCS.

I also haven't found any other projects online using any RFID RC522 based modules with Zephyr, so it looks like you would have to write your own library.