6 years, 6 months ago.

Has anyone had success with nRF51 DFU / FOTA?

I had some success last year with FOTA updates but now things are not working. When compiling with "app with bootloader" option the file size is much smaller than the "default" file size. This is definitely not how it used to be.

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The nRF51 Development Kit is a single-board development kit for Bluetooth Smart, ANT and 2.4GHz proprietary applications using the nRF51 Series SoC. This kit supports both development for both nRF51822 …

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6 years, 6 months ago.

This indeed seems to be broken on both mbed OS 2 and mbed OS 5 latest versions... I don't think mbed OS 5 ever worked with the nRF bootloader based on some experiments.

Switching back to an older version of mbed 2 would probably work best.

Tracking this here.

Thanks for the reply. I have been using mbed 2 and it is not working.

posted by Joel Anderson 05 Sep 2017