The Atmel documentation is powerfully bad - is there any example of creating a custom service and/or characteristic I can take a look at ? So far, the Nordic BLE documentation has been more helpful than the Atmel stuff despite using an Atmel chip. ;)
Indeed, the Atmel documentation for the SAMB11 chip is very very bad. What you can do is take one of the BLE examples, like the battery service or the Serial Chat Service, you can look at the code how things work, however it is not easily to understand.
The documentation attached with these examples are usable to build and start the example but for explanation how things works and how to start your own custom BLE application you can throw it in the trashbin.
All the examples uses the BLE library with the at_ble_api.h file. In this file every function has a small description about the meaning of these functions.
I did eventually figure out that the "custom serial chat" app was what I was looking for. I was thrown by the fact that the Atmel code isn't really in a library, it's in a set of example applications - and even the "BLE manager", which seems to be intended for use by user-built apps, has hard-coded garbage for the example apps all over it. :( The code is there for the most part, you just have to wade through lots of ill-documented CPP macros.
Hi Riz, you mentioned the Nordic BLE documentation, could you please post a link? I went to Nordic site, all the documents I saw there are about their own chips. Thanks.
I went to Nordic site, all the documents I saw there are about their own chips
Well, of course they are!
Just like all the documents on the Atmel Microchip site are about their own chips!
I see some documentation available on BTLC1000 product page which shows how we can create custom service implementation. check this out!!!!! http://ww1.microchip.com/downloa...
enjoy !!!!
happy weekend!!!!!!!!
I think I've found the documents on Nordic site that Riz was talking about. In case some beginners like me are interested:
https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/t...
In the middle of the page, it has good documents on Bluetooth coding:
I hope Microchip could come up with something similar with SAMB11.
Also what is the purpose of BLE Manager
