NRF52 and beacon ( NRF51) example

[Usman Rashid]

Hi,

Is there any ready made app of NRF52 and NRF51 ( beacons), where beacons are communicating with the NRF52 and based on some nordic app for PC we can view that how many beacons are connected at the moment ?

[endnode]

Hi Usman, term "beacons" is normally used for non-connectable broadcasting BLE devices. Can you be more specific what do you expect from this "ready made" application?

[Usman Rashid]

I mean that is there any beacon and NRF52 software available in which NRF52 is getting broadcast messages of the beacon and I can see those messages on my computer screen.

Just like I can see RSSI values on the andriod or IOS app. Is there any software or .hex file for NRF52 so that NRF52 just recevies broadcast messages from beacon and forward it to the PC and can be seen using putty for instance ?

[Jørgen Holmefjord]

You can use nRF Connect to scan for advertising devices. This will also show all other BLE devices, in addition to Beacons. We do not provide any Beacon-specific applications for PC, but there are some older Beacon applications available for iOS and Android:

• IOS-nRF-Beacons
• Android-nRF-Beacon
• Android-nRF-Beacon-for-Eddystone

An alternative if you want to get advertising data on UART, is to setup one of the central examples in the SDK to forward the advertising packets to the PC using UART. You can also use pc-ble-driver, which are available in C/C++, Python, and Node.JS versions, to make your own Beacon scanner application using a serialized nRF5x device. You can find examples of how to use the driver in the GitHub repositories.

Best regards,

Jørgen