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by Ductapemaster 16 days ago
Nordic has newly-released silicon that supports Aliro using Channel Sounding, meaning a UWB chipset becomes optional. Also, NFC is supported directly.

https://www.nordicsemi.com/Products/Technologies/Aliro/Produ...
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asxeem 15 days ago
Are you saying Apple Wallet based unlock on approach can work with these chipsets without UWB? Current status of relevant uwb dev kits that does this is hundreds of USD and unavailable to purchase/out of stock since months. This repo works with common chips and I'm working on porting it out to ESP too (fingers crossed)

https://github.com/asxeem/openaliro

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Ductapemaster 2 days ago
I looked into it and the channel sounding approach isn't yet ready. Will need the new iOS as well as some firmware work from Nordic's side.
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