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ANT nrf51422 Proximity

Alex

Hi all,

I would like to trigger some actions on difference devices communicating with the ANT protocol based on the distance they are from each other. A simple example would be to light an LED via PWM with a duty cycle depending on the distance from master to slave.

I though that the proximity search function of the ANT protocol would support that but after having read the documentation and seen this thread devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../ I think that the best way is to use the RSSI value of the extended data messge format. Am I right? Did someone do something similar and could provide a code example?

Best regards

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    ok, so I just did a test in which I modified the broadcast receiver example for the SoftDevice s210 in order to read the RSSI values. I simply added this line before opening the ant channel:

    		/* Enable RSSI level for received messages */ 
	// This function sets the ANT Messaging Library Configuration used by Extended messaging.
	sd_ant_lib_config_set(ANT_LIB_CONFIG_MESG_OUT_INC_RSSI);

    Afterwards, in my channel handler I read the RSSI value and light up two LEDs depending on the value I get. This seems to work fine. One or the other LED lights up depending on the distance (and orientation) of my two ANT devices.

    Now I would like to read the values on my computer via UART connection. I just added the UART to my code with an event handler that sends the RSSI data to the computer. For some reason, that does not work. I do not know if I did something wrong here by having the ANT channel and the UART peripheral run in parallel.

    I will try to debug that...

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    ok, so I just did a test in which I modified the broadcast receiver example for the SoftDevice s210 in order to read the RSSI values. I simply added this line before opening the ant channel:

    		/* Enable RSSI level for received messages */ 
	// This function sets the ANT Messaging Library Configuration used by Extended messaging.
	sd_ant_lib_config_set(ANT_LIB_CONFIG_MESG_OUT_INC_RSSI);

    Afterwards, in my channel handler I read the RSSI value and light up two LEDs depending on the value I get. This seems to work fine. One or the other LED lights up depending on the distance (and orientation) of my two ANT devices.

    Now I would like to read the values on my computer via UART connection. I just added the UART to my code with an event handler that sends the RSSI data to the computer. For some reason, that does not work. I do not know if I did something wrong here by having the ANT channel and the UART peripheral run in parallel.

    I will try to debug that...

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