RE: nRF52840 Dongle Programming

Jørgen Holmefjord — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 10:30:01 GMT

Hi Andy,

1) It should be possible to run nRF Connect for Desktop on a Mac. If you are not able to make this work by searching already available solutions on this forum, please post a new ticket where you describe the issue in more details, including version of nRF Connect, etc. You can also program the dongle from command line using nrfutil, see the nRF52840 Dongle Programming Tutorial for more details

2) See above linked tutorial.

3) The Dongle is not intended for application development, due to the lack of J-Link/debugging capabilities. To limit the number of customers starting development using the dongle, the available examples for this platform is limited. The Dongle is mainly intended for use together with our tools (nRF Connect for Desktop BLE application, OpenThread Border Router, etc). It is possible to adapt most examples to run on the dongle, as described in the above tutorial, but note that the debugging capabilities are limited, and we may not be able to help out with issues on this platform. There are solder pads on the back of the dongle, to mount a debug header, if you have a Nordic DK/external J-Link debugger available. For development, we recommend using our Development Kits

4) I'm not familiar with the Arduino IDE, and this is not something we provide support on. You should ask this question in a Arduino forum, or hope for an answer from the community in this post.

Best regards,
Jørgen