Pstorage functional with deactivated softdevice?

[Nobody13]

Preface: I am developing a software working with different radio protocols (enhanced shockburst, bluetooth,...). Therefore I implemented uart commands for switching radio protocols.

This means I have to switch softdevice very often on and off. If radio chip is configured for enhanced shockburst and I want to save data in flash, I have to put radio module offline, start softdevice, save data to flash, stop softdevice and reconfigure chip for shockbust.

Is there a way for using pstorage functions without active softdevice, so I must not switching softdevice off and on?

Remarks: Softdevice does not want active hardware configurations (like radio module). If softdevce will be startet with active radio module for example, softdevice will throw an error which causes a reset.

Switching to pstorage without softdevice or pstorage raw isn't really an option because run time manager gots cracy and wants to install serveral packages like DFU.

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Hi,

I'm not sure I understand your last comment. pstorage_nosd is for use without softdevice, it is not possible to use the normal pstorage without softdevice.

You might need to modify the libraries a bit if you want to use pstorage both with and without softdevice, to make sure you use the softdevice-safe pstorage functions when softdevice is enabled and nosd functions when it is disabled.

Could you explain the errors you are getting when switching to pstorage_nosd in more details?

Best regards,

Jørgen

[Nobody13]

Yes pstorage_nosd is for use without softdevice. But if I select this package dialog "Manage Run-Time Environment" gets angry and returns message "Component conflicts with other selected components and has unresolved dependencies".

Package pstorage_nosd conflicts with package softdevice_present, which I need for several other packages. If I deselect package softdevice_present new conflicts with s110, app_util will be generated. If I deselect app_util new conflicts with app_fifo, app_scheduler, app_timer will be generated.

I my opinion packages are coupled too strong avoiding easy package change.

And I cannot remove softdevice s100 because sometimes I need to switch to blueooth protocol.

It drives me crazy...

:->

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

Are you storing large amount of data in any of the modes? You could look into some simpler method of writing to flash, like the NVMC driver etc. If not, you will have to rewrite the pstorage_no_sd library to allow both libraries to be included in your project, but use each of them for the portion of time when the softdevice is enabled/disabled.