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The day after the Bluetooth SIG announced the 1.0 spec of the Bluetooth mesh we are happy to announce the nRF5 SDK for Mesh for our nRF51 and nRF52 Series SoCs. This first (v0.9.1) release is packed with…

We’ve all seen the hype on 2x Speed, 4x Range, and 8x Advertising data increase capabilities in Bluetooth 5. But what does this all mean?? How does it achieve all these improvements? Is it really possible…

Motivation Very often, while working with Bluetooth LE devices, we encountered a problem having to repeat a sequence of operations to test or demonstrate some functionality. Writing a mobile app every…

There are different ways of measuring the current consumed by the nRF9160 SIP. Using a dedicated power analyzer is usually the preferred way, as it is often able to accurately measure and plot current…

Objectives Provide a brief primer to NCS and Zephyr Provide a quick-start guide to adding peripherals to an existing sample project Demonstrate running both foreground and background tasks within Zephyr…

Note: From NCS v1.7.0 onwards, the settings discussed in this guide are included in the board files for the Thingy:91. Therefore, as long as you build for the thingy91_nrf9160_ns or thingy91_nrf52840,…

If you’re thinking about building a network of sensors and you begin to survey the options, you’re likely to encounter a frothing sea of acronyms representing a variety of standards and protocols clamoring…

Background Some time ago I was working on a project that involved communication between Bluetooth mesh and a home automation platform. The goal of this project was to enable control and observability of…

Introduction The question of how to update advertising data dynamically using the BLE Advertising library has been raised many times by our forum-goers, especially after the release of nRF5 SDK v15.2.0…