Can't find Bluetooth operations in example code

[sticman22]

Hi, I'm a student at Oregon State University using the nRF51 Development Kit for a project. I can't seem to find any functions for sending and recieving Bluetooth signals in the SDK example code. The closest I found is the use of the macro SVCALL (in ble_gap.h line #889, SVCALL is defined in nrf_svc.h).

How does SVCALL relay information to Bluetooth? And where can I find the functions that actually invoke bluetooth?

[Nguyen Hoan Hoang]

The example code are located under Board folder inside the SDK. You can also follow this blog site for Eclipse development. It also have example codes both nRF51822 and iOS counter part. embeddedsoftdev.blogspot.ca/.../ehal-nrf51.html

[sticman22]

Thanks for the answer, but my problem isn't that I can't find the code or program the board. I can't figure out how the code works. Where in the code is data sent/recieved? Or at least where do I go to learn how to use bluetooth with the dev board?

[Nguyen Hoan Hoang]

Well, you need first to setup your development environment. There are many IDE you can use for software dev. Keil is the one supported by Nordic but it's very expensive. Your school may have a copy. You can use Eclipse with GCC which is free. You'll need to go to nordicsemi.com website to download the SDK, the Softdevice and documentation about your dev kit and how to set it up. Get yourself familiar with the dev kit by compiling the examples first. Once you got all that done, then you can start looking at the example code to see how the software use Bluetooth. That is the fastest and easiest path to go. If you want to be more advanced then you can also goto bluetooth.org to get documents about the standard and that is the long and hard road.

[Nguyen Hoan Hoang]

Forgot to mention, the documentations about the SDK is located via the 'Documentation' menu of this site.

[sticman22]

I actually have it all set up... I've programmed the board with example code and used the Master Control Panel for Android to interact with it. Now I'm trying to understand the code which is proving to be harder than I had hoped...