I have been asked several times about variations of the following advertising scenario, so I decided to make a blog post that I can refer to, and hope it might prove useful for others out there that are looking to do similar things. I recommend ...

In this post I will give you an introduction to the four kinds of data you need to consider when developing an IoT product: Device State Device Configuration Past Data Firmware Updates It's these messages that are exchanged between y...

There are smart home applications that require an extended radio range. Is it possible to use Zigbee/BLE multiprotocol solution to increase the Zigbee mesh network coverage?

This blog post contains answers to questions asked during the "Introduction to Nordic Thingy:91" webinar hosted by Nordic Semiconductor 22.08.2019. You can watch a recording of the webinar here. You can download the slides at the bottom of this ...

Thingy:91 FAQ Should I update to the latest firmware? It's not necessary and currently requires an external programmer for the part. PC tool support for upgrading firmware over the serial port is in the works. Meanwhile, should you wish to update, t...

For the past ten months, we’ve been busy, hunkering down in front of our keyboards, keeping the blinds down, shooting mean looks at our bosses whenever they dared interrupt us. And of course, all the while, we were blasting some Linkin&nbs...

Continuous delivery is in important aspect of short time to market and since the nRF9160 supports firmware over the air updates we want to ship a new firmware to our development boards every time we update the application.

Nordic's Power Profiler Kit (PPK) is an inexpensive piece of hardware that can provide a significant amount of insight into the operation and performance of your project. Although there is a lot that you can learn by experimenting with the PPK using ...

Disclaimer: This is a student project, and thus we can not guarantee that everything will work perfectly. This blog post covers how to connect to Google Cloud with an nRF9160 DK. The nRF9160 DK is using MQTT protocol to communicate wit...

The production firmware version v1.0.0 is released for the nRF9160. - Release notes for the nRF Connect SDK v1.0.0 (NCS) - Release notes for the Modem Firmware v1.0.0 (MFW) Update NCS to v1.0.0: cd ncs/nrf git checkout master git pull ...

I implemented parts of the BLE-MIDI service along with a small example application. I wanted to share it here on the blog, in case someone would find it useful. The intended audience is primarily someone looking to send MIDI data over Bluetooth ...

Google I/O was wrapped up last week. One session was particularly interesting: "Connect Thread Devices to the Cloud with IoT Core". In it Google explains how the Thread protocol and their Cloud IoT Core are the future of IoT connectivity. T...

This blog post complements the video with the same title, see this. Introduction There are many sources of information on the web trying to characterize the new low power cellular technologies LTE-M (Cat-M1) and NB-IoT (Cat-NB1). Unfortunately, ...

Trace Collector app collects UART traces from the nRF91, over serial port. User can collect traces with this tool and send the trace files(binary) to Nordic for parsing and processing. In addition to the log file of the Link Monitor( you can get it c...

Recently, we've updated the SEGGER Embedded Studio Nordic edition (SES) to version 4.16 (SES Nordic Edition is special version of SES built specifically for nRF Connect SDK).  This updated version introduced some new features to support bui...

In this example we are using the nRF Connect for Cloud Device API, which is a free service for protyping IoT products and is built on top of AWS IoT, to store dust sensor readings. The API is device-agnostic and can store data from any kind of device. In this example we use an Espruino Wifi (firmware version 2v01). The Espruino will connect to the AWS IoT MQTT broker using TLS, and regularly publish temperatore and…

The GNU Debugger (GDB) is a popular tool that provides familiar features like breakpoints along with a command syntax that allows creativity in the debugging process. Although its command line interface can be intimidating to some, tab completion mak...

Range testing of any RF scheme is inherently limited by the RF environment, antenna design, tuning and many other factors. The usefulness of range testing is to provide a basis for comparison while keeping as many variables as possible constant. When...

This blog post describes how you can take advantage of the 4 MOSFET's on the Thingy:52. DISCLAIMER: Please verify all information that is used/retrieved from this blog post. Some of the information might be inaccurate as this blog post has not b...

The Power Profiler Kit (PPK) is a flexible tool for measuring the real-time current draw of nRF5x designs. When used as an add-on board to measure the nRF5x current of an attached development kit (DK), the process is straightforward. Connecting an ex...

Updated September 6th 2019. This blog gives a snapshot of the development status of nRF9160 features and performance. Development The nRF9160 hardware and development kits are now in production and is suitable for full end-to-end sensor to cloud...

This blog was last updated 17.01.2019. The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) recently announced the deprecation and withdrawal of Bluetooth Core specifications v4.0 and v4.1. For products that are already qualified, there is no impact. For produ...

We are happy to announce our first release of the nRF Connect for Cloud Device API! Connect your BLE, LTE/NB-IoT or any other device to our free IoT development platform and interact with that device through a straight-forward RESTful API. Get starte...

This blog describes how you can setup a Segger Embedded Studio example for PCA10040E (emulating nRF52810) from nRF5 SDK 14.2 to use S132 v5.1.0, instead of S112. The procedure should be similar for the other toolchains. nRF5 SDK 14.2 officially ...

This is a follow-up to my previous blog post; adding custom commands to a BLE example. I hope it was interesting to see an example of adding the vendor specific Nordic UART service (NUS) into another project. For completeness, I wanted to share step...