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by DannyBee 531 days ago
Nordic supports this explicitly I thought. (Others I agree but they often have crappy stuff anyway)
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Yes, though sharing BLE with other protocols is challenging (even with first-class citizens like ANT+ there are various caveats). The proprietary protocols are Shockburst/Gazelle [0] which are based of the ancient nrf24 setup.

Having said that, the radio peripheral on the chip is dead simple to drive bare-metal. Create a packet (with the convenience function), put its address in a register and hit the 'send' bit (more or less, glossing over waiting for ready bits here). Receiving is as easy - point to where you want packets to land, go into RX mode and wait for the "packet received" bit to be set.

[0] https://docs.nordicsemi.com/bundle/sdk_nrf5_v17.1.0/page/exa...