RE: BEACON switch ESB

Einar Thorsrud — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 13:13:26 GMT

Hi,

There is no official example for this, but what you are describing is quite straight-forward, as the decision on ESB or BLE is taken initially by reading a GPIO. That means that your application decides initially if it should initialize the SoftDevice and use BLE, or if it should not initialize the SoftDevice and instead use ESB.

As SoftDevice / BLE projects are a bit more complex, I suggest you start of with a SoftDevice example project, and add in ESB dependencies. I did a quick and dirty merge of the Beacon Transmitter Sample Application and the ESB transmitter example from SDK 17.1.0 which you can refer to: devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../ble_5F00_app_5F00_beacon_5F00_esb_5F00_exclusive.zip. This is simply a merge of the two, so there are many things that should be improved, but this should work and shows you how this can be done.