NRF8001 and OTA Over-the-air

RE: NRF8001 and OTA Over-the-air

David Edwin — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 14:06:06 GMT

The BTLE bootloader (ble-optiboot) is for the Arduino and not the nRF8001. The ble-optiboot works side by side by the STK500 protocol and support firmware update over UART and over BTLE

RE: NRF8001 and OTA Over-the-air

vishal — Tue, 03 Nov 2015 12:06:08 GMT

Hello John,

The OTA which nordic talks about is for the bluetooth chip firmware and not for your arduino board. In order to implement the OTA for your arduino board you need to implement application for your smartphone which will talk with arduino board using STK500 Protocol.

Hope this will help you!

RE: NRF8001 and OTA Over-the-air

David Edwin — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 05:01:50 GMT

I have got a step by step approach marked out on the github issues, it would be good if you can try to reproduce it and see if it works. I will then upgrade it to a formal tutorial after it works on your end.

RE: NRF8001 and OTA Over-the-air

John — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 02:29:36 GMT

Hi David, Any updates on this?

Thanks Johnstrong text

RE: NRF8001 and OTA Over-the-air

John — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:59:50 GMT

You rock David!

RE: NRF8001 and OTA Over-the-air

David Edwin — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 13:55:17 GMT

I need to get the new nRFtoolbox release, which will happen this week and the tutorial can be right after that, but expect it sometime next week.

RE: NRF8001 and OTA Over-the-air

John — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 11:31:22 GMT

Hi David! That is fantastic! Im sure many of us would benefit from it. I know you are extremely busy, but any ideas of a timeline when we can expect it?

John

RE: NRF8001 and OTA Over-the-air

David Edwin — Wed, 16 Sep 2015 06:15:29 GMT

A tutorial is useful and will be done, the likely issue that you faced was version issues with the DFU protocol used. See this issue in github https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/ble-optiboot/issues/2

RE: NRF8001 and OTA Over-the-air

John — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 19:27:26 GMT

Yes, the arduino nano does use that mcu www.arduino.cc/.../ArduinoBoardNano. It has an atmega328. I have attempted this project many times with the bluetooth module above and the arduino nano and have not been able to get it to work. I have even paid a more veteran developer to try and he failed. Can you give step by step instructions? Or try it with any arduino and see if you can upload a simple blink sketch via OTA. The ble-optiboot is well documented, however I have scoured the internet and havent been able to find one person who has actually got it to work.

Thanks John

RE: NRF8001 and OTA Over-the-air

David Edwin — Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:03:10 GMT

The closest we have for a boot loader is the ble-optiboot project on github. This is for the ATMega328p and not for the IC on the Arduino nano, so this solution works for the Arduino UNO but not for the Nano.