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10 December 2018 02:27 PM

Jaimemg76 Newbie

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Hi, I'm a newbie with these devices and ANT+ programming... I got my whole project almost done, working thru BLE... But I want to support ANT+...

I have a BlueFruit nRF52832, programmed thru Arduino IDE... The only bootloader and softdevice I have in choice is at arduino platform is S132 6.1.1 ... So ¿I CAN'T USE ANT+? Right?

I got S323 softdevice (also S212 to try just ANT+) from this page... But the ZIP file contains only the HEX file...
The bootloader folder, in arduino, has an HEX file but also a ZIP FILE that is what Arduino IDE burns to the board... (I tried to rename the HEX file to cheat it, but still burns ZIP file)
That ZIP file contains 3 files: "manifest.json", "sd_bl.bin" and "sd_bl.dat"

¿Any way to get a ZIP file like that for S332 softdevice?

¿Or any way to update bootloader to Bluefruit nRF52832 to S332 and continue programming thru arduino/VS2013?

I am kind of stuck at this point... I am not able to make ANT+ working.. Any simple example...
Please I would thank any advice or help, to keep working in...

18 April 2020 07:43 PM #1

drewvigne Newbie

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commenting to restart thread. if anyone has any updates please post. i will be working on this myself in the coming weeks and will post anything i find out.

29 April 2020 01:08 PM #2

drewvigne Newbie

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I was able to create a dfu package containing the bin, dat, and json files using the adafruit-nrfutil. I do not have a method to successfully burn this s332 bootloader to the bluefruit. If anyone has done this successfully I would love to hear your thoughts.

29 April 2020 03:02 PM #3

drewvigne Newbie

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Ok I successfully flashed the 332 softdevice to my bluefruit feather. I will post with instructions on how to later. The problem is now since adafruit's board support package (BSP) does not support the 332 softdevice, I cannot get code to compile using Arduino IDE. I get the following error:

Sketch uses 23200 bytes (7%) of program storage space. Maximum is 290816 bytes.
Global variables use 3252 bytes (6%) of dynamic memory, leaving 48972 bytes for local variables. Maximum is 52224 bytes.
Upgrading target on COM7 with DFU package C:\Users\drewv\AppData\Local\Temp\arduino_build_305601\Blink.ino.zip. Flow control is disabled, Single bank, Touch disabled
Timed out waiting for acknowledgement from device.

Failed to upgrade target. Error is: No data received on serial port. Not able to proceed.
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "nordicsemi\__main__.py", line 294, in serial
  File "nordicsemi\dfu\dfu.py", line 235, in dfu_send_images
  File "nordicsemi\dfu\dfu.py", line 203, in _dfu_send_image
  File "nordicsemi\dfu\dfu_transport_serial.py", line 155, in send_init_packet
  File "nordicsemi\dfu\dfu_transport_serial.py", line 243, in send_packet
  File "nordicsemi\dfu\dfu_transport_serial.py", line 282, in get_ack_nr
nordicsemi.exceptions.NordicSemiException: No data received on serial port. Not able to proceed.

Possible causes:
- Selected Bootloader version does not match the one on Bluefruit device.
    Please upgrade the Bootloader or select correct version in Tools->Bootloader.
- Baud rate must be 115200, Flow control must be off.
- Target is not in DFU mode. Ground DFU pin and RESET and release both to enter DFU mode. 

Ideally I would want to develop a method using the arduino IDE due to its user friendliness. Additionally the user @cujo has developed an amazing arduino compatiple ANT library.

If anyone knows how to bypass the bsp issue which I'm sure is a very complex issue please let us know. [ Edited: 29 April 2020 03:05 PM by drewvigne ]

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