Teensy and the BlueNRG device

[nick23]

Posted on April 21, 2015 at 16:07

I've been trying to get the Teensy 3.1 to work with theX-NUCLEO-IDB04A1 board, using the Arduino IDE. So far I've been able to get the control byte sent, and the ready byte returned, and I think I'm getting the register bytes to return as well. But its sporadic. 

All I want to do is broadcast a signal from the chip to a phone, and read signal strength on the phone.  #teensy #arduino #bluenrg

[Antonio Vilei]

Posted on April 27, 2015 at 12:06

Hi,

If you want to quickly evaluate the X-NUCLEO-IDB04A1 expansion board for BlueNRG, the best option would be to plug it on an STM32 Nucleo (either NUCLEO-L053R8 or NUCLEO-F401RE) and use the X-CUBE-BLE1 software package:

http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM147/SC1870/PF261442

X-CUBE-BLE1 already comes with examples that allow you to send data to a phone.

Here are the links to the STM32 Nucleo boards:

http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM116/SC959/SS1532/LN1847/PF260000

http://www.st.com/web/catalog/tools/FM116/SC959/SS1532/LN1847/PF260001

X-CUBE-BLE1 is specific to STM32Cube software environment and can run across different families of STM32 microcontrollers, making it easy for you to switch from one STM32 family to another.  At the same time the drivers and sample applications were born to be open and flexible. This means that, even if at present not compatible, they allow ST, customers or independent communities of developers to quickly port the code to several software environments including  Arduino or Mbed.

Best regards,

Antonio

I've been trying to get the Teensy 3.1 to work with the X-NUCLEO-IDB04A1  board, using the Arduino IDE. So far I've been able to get the control byte sent, and the ready byte returned, and I think I'm getting the register bytes to return as well. But its sporadic. 

All I want to do is broadcast a signal from the chip to a phone, and read signal strength on the phone.