Bluetooth Development Studio with Nordic plugin for SDK 13

[Renix]

Any update on possible when Nordic can update the Plugin to support SDK13?

I was informed that the Nordic Semiconductor v1.2.2 plugin does not support SDK13.

Although I see there is a description under SDK13 that indicates it works. Here

[Mateusz Gancarczyk]

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[Sigurd]

Hi,

The last official release of the BDS-plugin was for SDK 11, and it’s therefore not up-to-date with many of the changes that has been introduced in the later SDK releases (e.g. app_trace that is used in SDK 11 is removed in SDK 12). That means that the code that the plugin generates is not 100% compatible with SDK 13. You can get it to work with SDK 13, but you will encounter several build errors that you will have to go through and fix “manually” in order to get the code to compile.

We are working on updating the BDS plugin to support the latest SDK, but for the moment, I would recommend using SDK 11 if you want to use BDS.

Hopefully a new version of the BDS plugin will be released later this year.

EDIT:

A new version of the BDS plugin for SDK 14.0 have now been released!

You can find it at here.

[Mateusz Gancarczyk]

I'm glad to hear that new version BDS plugin will be released. BDS is super useful tool ;)

[Renix]

Sigurd,

Is it possible to ask you guys nicely to take an example like say the \nRF5_SDK_13.0.0_04a0bfd\examples\ble_peripheral\experimental_bluetoothds_template\BDS

and work through the example given in the Readme.txt in this example, and then "manually" fix it, and document it on this site.

This will be quick and easy for you experts, and that will be a great help to then use BDS.

If there is a better example, to create a service with additional options, that is fine too.

I (and others) can perhaps use that to customize our own services created in BDS.

Any help appreciated

[Sigurd]

Hi Renix,

“Manually fixing” for one example is not very scalable, and new issues will be introduced as soon as users change something in the example. Instead, we will prioritize fixing the BDS-plugin. I talked with the developers, and we hope to release a new version of the BDS-plugin when SDK 14 is released later this year.