UART Baud Rate on an nRF52840

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UART Baud Rate on an nRF52840

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Is it possible to increase the baud rate on the BLEUart service on the nrf52840?
I found:
https://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/index ... _958674283
Which to me says the hardware should be able to handle up to 1mbps

Then I found:
https://learn.adafruit.com/introducing- ... d/hardware

Admittedly this is for the 51822 but I would think it should be doable on a later generation 52840 (assuming those numbers are increasing with release).

What I dont understand is how I actually do: "AT+BAUDRATE=115200" to set the baud rate in code.

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Re: UART Baud Rate on an nRF52840

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@sminogue,

Are you using an Adafruit Feather nRF52840?

Are you running Arduino or CircuitPython?

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Re: UART Baud Rate on an nRF52840

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Yes I am using an nRF52840 and I am writing my code in C++ in the Arduino IDE.

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Re: UART Baud Rate on an nRF52840

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It scanned the Adafruit nRF52 Arduino library and it looks like you specify the desired baudrate with the begin() statement. I believe 921,600 is the max value supported.

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// Configure and Start BLE Uart Service
  bleuart.begin(921600);

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nRF52_Arduino
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nR ... leuart.ino

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/*********************************************************************
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#include <bluefruit.h>
#include <Adafruit_LittleFS.h>
#include <InternalFileSystem.h>

// BLE Service
BLEDfu  bledfu;  // OTA DFU service
BLEDis  bledis;  // device information
BLEUart bleuart; // uart over ble
BLEBas  blebas;  // battery

void setup()
{
  Serial.begin(115200);

#if CFG_DEBUG
  // Blocking wait for connection when debug mode is enabled via IDE
  while ( !Serial ) yield();
#endif
  
  Serial.println("Bluefruit52 BLEUART Example");
  Serial.println("---------------------------\n");

  // Setup the BLE LED to be enabled on CONNECT
  // Note: This is actually the default behavior, but provided
  // here in case you want to control this LED manually via PIN 19
  Bluefruit.autoConnLed(true);

  // Config the peripheral connection with maximum bandwidth 
  // more SRAM required by SoftDevice
  // Note: All config***() function must be called before begin()
  Bluefruit.configPrphBandwidth(BANDWIDTH_MAX);

  Bluefruit.begin();
  Bluefruit.setTxPower(4);    // Check bluefruit.h for supported values
  //Bluefruit.setName(getMcuUniqueID()); // useful testing with multiple central connections
  Bluefruit.Periph.setConnectCallback(connect_callback);
  Bluefruit.Periph.setDisconnectCallback(disconnect_callback);

  // To be consistent OTA DFU should be added first if it exists
  bledfu.begin();

  // Configure and Start Device Information Service
  bledis.setManufacturer("Adafruit Industries");
  bledis.setModel("Bluefruit Feather52");
  bledis.begin();

  // Configure and Start BLE Uart Service
  bleuart.begin();

  // Start BLE Battery Service
  blebas.begin();
  blebas.write(100);

  // Set up and start advertising
  startAdv();

  Serial.println("Please use Adafruit's Bluefruit LE app to connect in UART mode");
  Serial.println("Once connected, enter character(s) that you wish to send");
}

void startAdv(void)
{
  // Advertising packet
  Bluefruit.Advertising.addFlags(BLE_GAP_ADV_FLAGS_LE_ONLY_GENERAL_DISC_MODE);
  Bluefruit.Advertising.addTxPower();

  // Include bleuart 128-bit uuid
  Bluefruit.Advertising.addService(bleuart);

  // Secondary Scan Response packet (optional)
  // Since there is no room for 'Name' in Advertising packet
  Bluefruit.ScanResponse.addName();
  
  /* Start Advertising
   * - Enable auto advertising if disconnected
   * - Interval:  fast mode = 20 ms, slow mode = 152.5 ms
   * - Timeout for fast mode is 30 seconds
   * - Start(timeout) with timeout = 0 will advertise forever (until connected)
   * 
   * For recommended advertising interval
   * https://developer.apple.com/library/content/qa/qa1931/_index.html   
   */
  Bluefruit.Advertising.restartOnDisconnect(true);
  Bluefruit.Advertising.setInterval(32, 244);    // in unit of 0.625 ms
  Bluefruit.Advertising.setFastTimeout(30);      // number of seconds in fast mode
  Bluefruit.Advertising.start(0);                // 0 = Don't stop advertising after n seconds  
}

void loop()
{
  // Forward data from HW Serial to BLEUART
  while (Serial.available())
  {
    // Delay to wait for enough input, since we have a limited transmission buffer
    delay(2);

    uint8_t buf[64];
    int count = Serial.readBytes(buf, sizeof(buf));
    bleuart.write( buf, count );
  }

  // Forward from BLEUART to HW Serial
  while ( bleuart.available() )
  {
    uint8_t ch;
    ch = (uint8_t) bleuart.read();
    Serial.write(ch);
  }
}

// callback invoked when central connects
void connect_callback(uint16_t conn_handle)
{
  // Get the reference to current connection
  BLEConnection* connection = Bluefruit.Connection(conn_handle);

  char central_name[32] = { 0 };
  connection->getPeerName(central_name, sizeof(central_name));

  Serial.print("Connected to ");
  Serial.println(central_name);
}

/**
 * Callback invoked when a connection is dropped
 * @param conn_handle connection where this event happens
 * @param reason is a BLE_HCI_STATUS_CODE which can be found in ble_hci.h
 */
void disconnect_callback(uint16_t conn_handle, uint8_t reason)
{
  (void) conn_handle;
  (void) reason;

  Serial.println();
  Serial.print("Disconnected, reason = 0x"); Serial.println(reason, HEX);
}

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Re: UART Baud Rate on an nRF52840

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Results in a compile error:

error: no matching function for call to 'BLEUart::begin(int)'

I'm looking through the code in
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nR ... LEUart.cpp
https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nR ... /BLEUart.h

And dont see a begin with a parameter.

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Re: UART Baud Rate on an nRF52840

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@sminogue,

Good point.

I don't see a way to set the BLE UART baudrate. I think the following only works for the nRF52 hardware UARTs (non-BLE).

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nR ... q=baudrate
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I would suggest opening an issue and requesting a setable BLE UART. If there is a way that will come out of the issue.

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nR ... ino/issues

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