Trying to enable the UART

RE: Trying to enable the UART

Kenneth — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 09:08:43 GMT

Let me just try to clarify a bit, I think you are mixing two different SDK's, there is the nRF5 SDK (lates is 17.1, not recommended for new development) and there is the nRF Connect SDK (latest is 2.2, recommended for new designs):

nRF Connect SDK and nRF5 SDK statement

The nRF5 SDK was used with Keil, IAR and SES, while the nRF Connect SDK is using the VS code. To get started with nRF Connect SDK check out:
https://academy.nordicsemi.com/courses/nrf-connect-sdk-fundamentals/

The nRF52 DK is supported in nRF Connect SDK:
https://developer.nordicsemi.com/nRF_Connect_SDK/doc/latest/nrf/ug_nrf52_features.html#supported-boards

Kenneth

RE: Trying to enable the UART

Bret Foreman — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 18:16:44 GMT

If you look at ticket 300239 in this forum you will see that my nRF52 DK is not supported by the nRFConnect SDK. So your recommendation is mis-informed.

As you can see in my post here, what I'm doing is exactly as you recommended - comparing my sdk_config.h file to the one in the UART example. The two files are drastically different and the UART documentation is no help because it doesn't talk about how to enable the UART.

I'm stuck. You guys aren't supporting the sdk_config.h file for my DK and your new nRF Connect platform doesn't support the DK either. What should I do?

RE: Trying to enable the UART

Kenneth — Mon, 19 Dec 2022 11:54:36 GMT

Hi,

Unfortunately the sdk_config.h files are not complete, they typically only contain the configuration required to run the example. So in this case you need to compare the sdk_config.h with a project that is using app_uart and copy and paste all configurations that may be missing.

For new development use the nRF Connect SDK instead, then you avoid this.

Kenneth