Hi Mo Chen,

I'm actually using Mynewt OS where OTA is supported when using MCUBoot.
Maybe worth considering using MCUBoot?

Best
Łukasz

On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 17:19, Mo Chen <shanyechu...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Lukasz,
>
> We are also trying FreeRTOS + Nimble on nrf52. Have you realized DFU OTA
> via BLE with FreeRTOS? We are not sure if this is something doable.
>
> Thanks,
>
> On Sun, Jun 14, 2020 at 4:19 PM Łukasz Rymanowski <
> lukasz.rymanow...@codecoup.pl> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > so indeed your logs show that after trying to read include services from
> > GATT service, something bad happened. Controller was able to ACK 2
> > following master packets then it stopped to send ACKs.
> > Do you have a console available? If so, does it show anything
> interesting?
> >
> > For further debugging I suggest to look at BLE_MONITOR_RTT to grab hci
> logs
> > (https://www.codecoup.pl/blog/support-for-btmon-in-mynewt/)
> > With this we will know if response is still in the host or is in the
> > controller.
> >
> > Then we could check some stats e.g. ble_ll_stats - maybe that could show
> us
> > something interesting - but first let us see where it stuck.
> >
> > Best
> > Łukasz
> >
> > On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 at 21:06, <j...@codingfield.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > It looks like the attachements were dropped somewhere... You can
> > > download them on my seafile instance :
> > > https://seafile.codingfield.com/d/64d53a6ca6b44ae6b5d7/
> > >
> > > It seems to fail during the discovery of the characteristics on the
> > > device. From what I understand, it happens during the discovery of
> > > Generic Access Profile and Generic Attributes Profile, which are
> handled
> > > by nimble.
> > > I may be wrong, I'm a beginner with BLE and nimble!
> > > Maybe the captures will make more sens to you?
> > >
> > > Yeah, it's very strange that it works when the code is supposed to run
> > > slower... It makes me think of a timing or memory issue, but I couldn't
> > > find it...
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > JF
> > >
> > > Le 14/06/2020 20:46, Łukasz Rymanowski a écrit :
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > Thanks for the report, however looks like attachments are missing.
> > > >
> > > > First of all you need to understand what read fails i.e check handle
> > > > and
> > > > make sure that your application responds correctly.
> > > > It is very suspicious that read works with -Og, but still I would
> focus
> > > > on
> > > > that failing read first.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Lukasz
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2020, 20:25 <j...@codingfield.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >> Hello,
> > > >>
> > > >> I'm working on a firmware for the Pinetime, a smartwatch based on
> the
> > > >> NRF52832. The code is written in C/C++ and uses FreeRTOS.
> > > >> I've recently switched from the Nordic Softdevice to NimBLE as BLE
> > > >> stack. I used the freertos port from the 'porting' folder of the
> > > >> source
> > > >> code of nimble.
> > > >>
> > > >> I did many test using my PC on Linux : it can connect and
> communicate
> > > >> with the NRF52 without issue.
> > > >> However, things are not that easy when I try to connect using
> Android
> > > >> phone (I tried with a Huawei Psomething and my old Nexus5) : the
> > > >> connection fails most of the time.
> > > >>
> > > >> I did a lot of debugging, logging, sniffing,.. and I still cannot
> > > >> understand why it's not working as expected. Here are some of my
> > > >> observations:
> > > >>
> > > >>   - When Android successfully connects, I receive the following GAP
> > > >> events : BLE_GAP_EVENT_CONNECT and then BLE_GAP_EVENT_CONN_UPDATE 2
> > > >> times. The first update sets the connection interval to 6, the
> second
> > > >> one to 40.
> > > >>   - When it fails, I receive only the BLE_GAP_EVENT_CONNECT event
> and
> > > >> the
> > > >> 1st BLE_GAP_EVENT_CONN_UPDATE.
> > > >>   - Using the sniffer, I noticed that the last packet is a read
> > > >> request
> > > >> from the phone. It looks like the NRF52 never respond to this last
> > > >> read.
> > > >>   - It fails in the discovery steps (when the android phone discover
> > > >> all
> > > >> the services, characteristics and attributes) but not always at the
> > > >> same
> > > >> place.
> > > >>   - I noticed that the tasks (ll task and host task are not in
> > > >> deadlock
> > > >> BUT it looks like the radio ISR (ble_phy_isr() in ble_phy.c) is not
> > > >> called anymore.
> > > >>   - When I build the very same code in DEBUG (-Og instead of -O3),
> it
> > > >> works perfectly!
> > > >>
> > > >> You'll find in attachements 2 captures I did with Wireshark and the
> > > >> NRF
> > > >> Sniffer (running on a NRF52-DK), one failed and one successful
> attempt
> > > >> to connect.
> > > >>
> > > >> I'm running out of idea to debug this further. Is there a
> > > >> configuration
> > > >> issue (there are so many parameters in syscfg.h)? What could I try?
> > > >> Where should  I search ? Do you need more info to understand the
> > > >> issue?
> > > >>
> > > >> Could you help me fix this issue?
> > > >>
> > > >> Thanks,
> > > >>
> > > >> JF
> > >
> >
>
>
> --
> Mo Chen
>

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