ANT: Broadcast RX

The Broadcast examples consists of basic example applications that can be used to test ANT connectivity between a transmitter and receiver.

Overview

On dual core, this sample uses the ‘’CONFIG_ANT_NP’’ and ‘’CONFIG_ANT_INCLUDE_NP_CHILD_IMAGE’’ Kconfig options to automatically configure a child image on the network core.

Channel configuration

This example uses the default channel configuration:

Parameter

Transmitter

Receiver

Channel type

Master (0x10)

Slave (0x00)

Network key

Public

Public

RF channel

66 (2466 MHz)

66 (2466 MHz)

Device number

0x02

0x02

Device type

0x02

0x02

Transmission type

0x01

0x01

Channel period

8192 (4 Hz)

8192 (4 Hz)

Requirements

Hardware platforms

PCA

Board name

Build target

nRF5340 DK

PCA10095

nrf5340dk_nrf5340

nrf5340dk_nrf5340_cpuapp

nRF52840 DK

PCA10056

nrf52840dk_nrf52840

nrf52840dk_nrf52840

Configuration

This sample configuration is split into the following two files:

  • generic configuration is available in the prj.conf file (single core, or dual core cpuapp)

  • configuration for the ant_rpc child image is stored in the child_image subdirectory (dual core cpunet)

Building and running

This sample can be found under ant/samples/ant_broadcast_rx in the nRF Connect SDK folder structure.

Testing

After programming the sample to your development kit, you can test the Broadcast Receiver using ANTware II:

  1. Compile and program the Broadcast Receiver.

  2. Run ANTware II. Select your ANT PC dongle (for example, ANTUSB-m) from the available devices.

  3. Configure the device channel by loading the device profile configuration from the following file:

    ant\samples\ant_broadcast_rx\ant_broadcast_rx_test.xml

    Alternatively, you can configure the device channel manually:

    • Set the channel assignment to Master.

    • Set the channel ID to “2, 2, 1”.

  4. Click the Auto-Open button. Check the application core virtual COM port of the nRF DK for logging output.

    [00:00:00.264,251] <inf> ant_broadcast_rx: ANT Broadcast RX example started
[00:00:17.018,402] <inf> ant_broadcast_rx: EVENT_RX - 09 4E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[00:00:17.268,371] <inf> ant_broadcast_rx: EVENT_RX - 09 4E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 01
[00:00:17.518,371] <inf> ant_broadcast_rx: EVENT_RX - 09 4E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 02
[00:00:17.768,371] <inf> ant_broadcast_rx: EVENT_RX - 09 4E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03
[00:00:18.018,371] <inf> ant_broadcast_rx: EVENT_RX - 09 4E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 04
[00:00:18.268,371] <inf> ant_broadcast_rx: EVENT_RX - 09 4E 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 05