BLE Hands on Getting Started Flash SoC Thermometer Demo - joe-possum/IoT-Developer-Boot-Camp GitHub Wiki

In this exercise we will flash a prebuilt firmware image which includes a compatible bootloader. This will work for almost all radio boards, but not all. If this is the case you will need to skip this exercise and follow the exercises in a modified order.

As mentioned in the introduction, Bluetooth Low Energy applications require a bootloader. Flashing a Bluetooth LE demo will include a bootloader, removing the need to build an flash a bootloader from souce, when all you want is to quicky run an application on a freshly erased device.

Not all demos include a bootloader, but those with a name starting with "Bluetooth" include the Gecko Bootloader.

Starting from the Launcher perspective, select the WSTK (1) and then select the "EXAMPLE PROJECTS & DEMOS" tab (2). To filter through the available examples, you can select only demos (3) and show only Bluetooth (4). Scrolling through the resources locate the "Bluetooth - SoC Thermometer" demo (5). Note the "Demo" tag at the top left and the "RUN" button.

Click the RUN button. A dialog will briefly appear indicating the progress of the flashing operation.

The bootloader and application are now flashed to the attached device which has been reset and is now running the Health Thermometer demo application. Proceed to the ERF Connect execise.

If no Bluetooth demo applications are shown, you will need to skip ahead to the exercises where the bootloader and application are built from source projects.