This is working nicely.....

[david zuhn <zo...@statebeltrailway.org>]

Hey all,
   Since most postings on lists like this are of the sort "I can't get this
to work, help!", sometimes people can overlook the bigger picture.

  I started working with MyNewt about a year ago, and quickly ran into
issues because I needed ADC support on the nRF52, and that didn't work
"simply".  So I ended up moving into the Nordic SDK directly, and I've
spent a lot of time over the last few months deep in that space.

  At ELC in March, I talked to the runtime folks again, and they suggested
that I take another look at MyNewt, especially master, as the nrfx code had
been merged in and that made several of the drivers a lot more
straightforward.

  I've been working on my codebase for 2-3 weeks now within MyNewt, and I'm
further along now than after several months within the Nordic SDK.
 Granted, some of that is just the fact that I have a better understanding
of what I need to do, and so it's easier to know what to look for in the
code.
  But the Nimble BLE API's in particular *really* make it a LOT easier to
get stuff done.  Just re-implementing my devices BLE interface took a
weekend, and I've got more functionality and the code is much cleaner.

  I'm not saying MyNewt is perfect.   But there's really been a lot of
progress in the last year, and I'm definitely hopeful for the future.
 It's a nice base to work on right now.

  Kudos to everyone involved.


david zuhn
zoo@statebeltrailway.org

Re: This is working nicely.....

[Christopher Collins <ch...@runtime.io>]

Thanks for taking the time, David and Abderrezak.  As a Mynewt
contributor, messages like yours are gratifying to hear.

I won't comment on the question of Mynewt vs. Zephyr! :)

Chris

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 07:09:03PM -0400, Abderrezak Mekkaoui wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I would like to add my voice do David's and say kudos to all the 
> contributors to this project.
> I have been using mynewt for a few weeks now (on the nordic 52840 PDK 
> and my own custom board) with great success.
> I encountered few minor issues at the beginning and found help very 
> quickly from the community.
> I am personally very impressed with the effort. But to be thorough an 
> unbiased I have just started looking into Zephyr as I need to make a 
> business decision. I still
> don't know what open source "framework" would be more appropriate for my 
> company. Any thoughts or feedback would be very helpful, even though I 
> am not sure if it is appropriate to ask this group about that?
> Thanks once again!
> 
> Abderrezak Mekkaoui
> 
> 
> On 4/26/2018 11:07 AM, david zuhn wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >     Since most postings on lists like this are of the sort "I can't get this
> > to work, help!", sometimes people can overlook the bigger picture.
> >
> >    I started working with MyNewt about a year ago, and quickly ran into
> > issues because I needed ADC support on the nRF52, and that didn't work
> > "simply".  So I ended up moving into the Nordic SDK directly, and I've
> > spent a lot of time over the last few months deep in that space.
> >
> >    At ELC in March, I talked to the runtime folks again, and they suggested
> > that I take another look at MyNewt, especially master, as the nrfx code had
> > been merged in and that made several of the drivers a lot more
> > straightforward.
> >
> >    I've been working on my codebase for 2-3 weeks now within MyNewt, and I'm
> > further along now than after several months within the Nordic SDK.
> >   Granted, some of that is just the fact that I have a better understanding
> > of what I need to do, and so it's easier to know what to look for in the
> > code.
> >    But the Nimble BLE API's in particular *really* make it a LOT easier to
> > get stuff done.  Just re-implementing my devices BLE interface took a
> > weekend, and I've got more functionality and the code is much cleaner.
> >
> >    I'm not saying MyNewt is perfect.   But there's really been a lot of
> > progress in the last year, and I'm definitely hopeful for the future.
> >   It's a nice base to work on right now.
> >
> >    Kudos to everyone involved.
> >
> >
> > david zuhn
> > zoo@statebeltrailway.org
> >
> 

Re: This is working nicely.....

[Abderrezak Mekkaoui <ab...@gmail.com>]

Hi All,

I would like to add my voice do David's and say kudos to all the 
contributors to this project.
I have been using mynewt for a few weeks now (on the nordic 52840 PDK 
and my own custom board) with great success.
I encountered few minor issues at the beginning and found help very 
quickly from the community.
I am personally very impressed with the effort. But to be thorough an 
unbiased I have just started looking into Zephyr as I need to make a 
business decision. I still
don't know what open source "framework" would be more appropriate for my 
company. Any thoughts or feedback would be very helpful, even though I 
am not sure if it is appropriate to ask this group about that?
Thanks once again!

Abderrezak Mekkaoui


On 4/26/2018 11:07 AM, david zuhn wrote:
> Hey all,
>     Since most postings on lists like this are of the sort "I can't get this
> to work, help!", sometimes people can overlook the bigger picture.
>
>    I started working with MyNewt about a year ago, and quickly ran into
> issues because I needed ADC support on the nRF52, and that didn't work
> "simply".  So I ended up moving into the Nordic SDK directly, and I've
> spent a lot of time over the last few months deep in that space.
>
>    At ELC in March, I talked to the runtime folks again, and they suggested
> that I take another look at MyNewt, especially master, as the nrfx code had
> been merged in and that made several of the drivers a lot more
> straightforward.
>
>    I've been working on my codebase for 2-3 weeks now within MyNewt, and I'm
> further along now than after several months within the Nordic SDK.
>   Granted, some of that is just the fact that I have a better understanding
> of what I need to do, and so it's easier to know what to look for in the
> code.
>    But the Nimble BLE API's in particular *really* make it a LOT easier to
> get stuff done.  Just re-implementing my devices BLE interface took a
> weekend, and I've got more functionality and the code is much cleaner.
>
>    I'm not saying MyNewt is perfect.   But there's really been a lot of
> progress in the last year, and I'm definitely hopeful for the future.
>   It's a nice base to work on right now.
>
>    Kudos to everyone involved.
>
>
> david zuhn
> zoo@statebeltrailway.org
>