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[tcpipchip]

@khoih-prog

Hi

Is it possible to port to NRF52 chips ? I can test here!

Are the routines HIGH level ? (hardware gpios access)

Thanks!

[khoih-prog]

Hi,
I currently have no plan yet to port to other boards such as Nano 33 BLE / BLE Sense.

Is it possible to port to NRF52 chips ?

Do you mean the board using nRF52x such as Nano 33 BLE / BLE Sense (using nRF52840) or just the uBlox NINA B1/2/3/4 modules (using nRF52832, etc.)?

I can test here!

Great and appreciated, thanks for your offer to help.
Still waiting for your answers before investigating to see what are already available and not, then acquiring modules/boards and deciding if and what to do.

[tcpipchip]

Hi, NINA B302 uses a NRF52840.
I am the support to Smartcore.com.br, the U-BLOX representative in Brazil! I want to offer to their clients (that uses the NINA B302) the option to add the WIFI stack!
I want to do a blog about and give you the merits!

Just now i got success to add WIFI to NINA B302, but using the PYTHON. But, i am looking for ARDUINO

If you make work with 33 BLE SENSE, it will work with NINA B302 !

Thanks!

[khoih-prog]

Just now i got success to add WIFI to NINA B302, but using the PYTHON.

That's great. Could you pass the link or any additional info so that I can have a look and save some time researching.

If you make work with 33 BLE SENSE, it will work with NINA B302 !

Will try.

Thanks,

[tcpipchip]

Yes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=103&v=U-xRKa_7iro&feature=emb_logo
https://www.rototron.info/circuitpython-nrf52840-esp32-wifi-tutorial/

But will you try NRF52840 talks with WIFININA, right ? (using Arduino) ?

[khoih-prog]

Thanks for the links.

I'll try to make WiFi running on Nano 33 BLE (nRF52840). Will let you know if it's OK soon.

[tcpipchip]

@khoih-prog

This is the best news of today!!!!!

And you will be famous :) too

I am will write many blogs with ble and wifinina with your credits!

[khoih-prog]

And you will be famous :) too

I really don't like that as being obscure will help have time to do better work.
I'm doing this just to spend my remaining free time to help the community and to make my brain not rusty. NO further thinking.
But many thanks for your nice words anyway.

PS:

1. The B302 in Nano 33 BLE, I think, can only run either BLE or WiFi, not both at the same time with the current firmware as there is only 1 radio channel. The better U-Blox NINA W15 can do this simulltaneously
2. It's great if you, as one of UBlox reps, can ask UBlox to upgra.de the firmware to let both WiFi and BLE running at the same time as in Nano 33 IoT. If this is possible, the work will be much simpler then.
3. Another question is why you don't use Nano 33 Iot which offer both WiFi and BLE (slave) at the same time?

[tcpipchip]

And you will be famous :) too
I really don't like that as being obscure will help have time to do better work.
I'm doing this just to spend my remaining free time to help the community and to make my brain not rusty. NO further thinking.
But many thanks for your nice words anyway.

YES, YOU ARE RIGHT!

PS:

The B302 in Nano 33 BLE, I think, can only run either BLE or WiFi, not both at the same time with the current firmware as there is only 1 radio channel. The better U-Blox NINA W15 can do this simulltaneously

BUT DO YOU HAVE ONE WITH W102 ? LOOKS THAT B302 HAS 4MB FLASH!

It's great if you, as one of UBlox reps, can ask UBlox to upgra.de the firmware to let both WiFi and BLE running at the same time as in Nano 33 IoT. If this is possible, the work will be much simpler then.

BUT THAT FIRMWARE OF MODULE IS NOT OF UBLOX TEAM!

Another question is why you don't use Nano 33 Iot which offer both WiFi and BLE (slave) at the same time?

UBLOX REPRESENTATIVE ONLY HAVE W102,B302 and B112 and B312

[tcpipchip]

https://www.blogger.com/profile/01246279301136130630

[khoih-prog]

BUT DO YOU HAVE ONE WITH W102 ?

I have Nano 33 IoT using U-blox W102. All the libraries relating to WiFiNINA are written for and tested specially on that Nano board.

BUT THAT FIRMWARE OF MODULE IS NOT OF UBLOX TEAM!

So strange, at least they have some engineers supporting / developing these firmwares with Espressif (ESP-32 based chip). Otherwise, it'll take much more time for outsiders to do that.
I think it's also possible to change the firmware of B302 to something similar to ESP32's to support both WiFi and BLE simultaneously.

It'll take some more research before knowing the time, if and when the work can be done. Hopefully someone will be there much earlier.

[tcpipchip]

Nano 33 iot uses atmel SAM

The challenger is replace the SAM by a NRF52 :)

About u-blox, they have proprietary firmware to W1 (for the chips that are not opencpu)

[khoih-prog]

Hi,
Your blog is very informative and good.

After some research, I have these following observations:

1. The WiFi Tutorial for nRF52840 is not about using B302 to run WiFi, but using external ESP32 as co-processor to run WiFi.
2. It's better to use W102, W1x if you'd like to run WiFi as in Nano 33 IoT, instead of using B302, B3x (as in Nano 33 BLE/Sense).
3. The Arduino mbed-based development (for Nano 33 BLE/Sense) is still pre-matured (without the Network, WiFi, etc. support). It'll take some much more time to wait or develop yourself.

IMHO, the suggestion and plan is:

1. Don't go further with the WiFiNINA port to B302, etc.
2. Port the WiFiNINA ( WiFiWebServer, WiFiNINA_Generic, WiFiManager_NINA_Lite, Blynk_WiFiNINA_WM ) libraries to nRF52 boards (AdaFruit Feather nRF52832, nRF52840 Express, BlueFruit Sense, Itsy-Bitsy nRF52840 Express, Metro nRF52840 Express, etc.).
3. Enable the above-mentioned AdaFruit boards to run Ethernet W5x00, ENC28J60, LAN8742A, etc. Will buy some boards to test.
4. Enhance Arduino mbed-based development (for Nano 33 BLE/Sense) to add WiFi/Ethernet Network support. Some long-term plan for fun if not available then.

Hope they are correct after so short research time .

[tcpipchip]

late i will try to make the NRF52 try to talk with W102 (WIFININA) too! But i still testing it with CIRCUIT PYTHON and need to make some blogs

[khoih-prog]

i will try to make the NRF52 try to talk with W102 (WIFININA)

Pls inform when done. I can port the WiFiNINA libraries to nRF52 boards, but still don't have any board (to be ordered) to test. Hopefully you can help test when the enhancement finished.