Nordic Thingy
Nordic Thingy:52 is a compact, power-optimized, multi-sensor device built around the nRF52832 Bluetooth® 5 SoC from Nordic Semiconductor.
Capture, view, and interact with the sensor data acquired from your Thingy:52. Thanks to its simple Bluetooth API and IFTTT™ integration, the possibilities are endless!
Use this app to connect your mobile device with Thingy and gain access to the following functionalities:
- View the current temperature, humidity, air quality, and atmospheric pressure
- Use it as a compass, step counter, or detect taps on any of its axis
- Check the orientation of your Thingy and get live accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer data at a high rate
- Measure the gravity vector
- Trigger programmable events by pressing the button on top of the device
- Control the color, brightness, and mode of the RGB LED
- Stream PCM audio to its speaker, or play predefined notification sounds when events occur
- Stream audio from Thingy to a mobile device using the built-in microphone
- Play programmable tunes in frequency mode
- Using the free Thingy app, update the firmware on your Thingy as soon as new firmware versions are released
For firmware and mobile developers:
Thingy can be flashed with custom firmware, just like any other development kit from Nordic Semiconductor. The Thingy firmware package contains comprehensive documentation, so you can easily customize it to your own needs.
Additionally, we provide an Android Library on GitHub for your Android development needs. These libraries are made exclusively for Thingy, to ensure that mobile development are as smooth as possible!
Learn more about Thingy at https://www.nordicsemi.com/thingy
Category : Tools
Reviews (19)
Great app as Nordic's usually do. The app overall works pretty good, but I am having issues with the ifttt/cloud, I am unable to paste or write my key to use that feature
Keeps crashing for Samsung Galaxy Tab s4 wasn't able to use at all
Can't find my Thingy ☹️
Very intuitive
Cannot connect using Samsung Note 8, Scan sees nothing even though I can scan tag with NFC fine, and can see it in Bluetooth settings and connect to it with nRF Connect just fine. Please help. I am happy to beta test if you email ReanimationXP at gmail.
There are only 3 cloud events such as temperature ,pressure and button state .we need additional cloud events such as humidity,co2 and color intensity. So plz update the app.
Is it possible to calibrate the temp/humidity sensor from the app?
It would be very useful to have a new function with the ability to record the raw data to a file for further analysis. Still very great app from Nordic!
Cannot stay connected long enough to get any data. Using Nexus 6 Phone with Android 7. Would not upgrade firmware to the latest. But worked with Nexus tablet. Also, upgraded to latest firmware using the tablet. Still cannot stay connected long enough when using Nexus 6 Phone. I ran nRF Connect. It can stay connected. When I run Thingy App I see GATT Connection timeout error 0x08 in nRF Connect. How do I change this timeout value to stay connected? Can connect via Web app. Increased connection parameters. Now the Thingy app takes longer to disconnect. Even though seems to stay connected for long but unable to read or write any data to the peripheral. Upgraded app to 1.2.0. With the exception of sound feature other options are working on Nexus 6 Phone.
Firmware update hangs or crashes. Menu items often don't respond, i.e., can only see the environment screen. Some environment values not shown, while others are missing in web interface.
This ran well for me in my Nexus 7 tablet and inexpensive MotoE, after the suggested firmware upgrade to version 1.1, which took f-o-r-e-v-e-r, at less than 1k/second transfer speed, but it did finally complete. Be patient, well worth the wait! Data collection is accurate, and there's an entire spectrum of data displayed. Seems to be open source both hardware and software. There are clear instructions on the web how to build application with the arm-gcc tool-chain. Very good learning experience overall, and therefore very strongly recommended.
Nice device and app. Needs a way to select a preference for units.
This app is installed on motoX style and is not able to find thingy device. The Bluetooth on the phone is able to find it though. This is Android 6. Not sure how to resolve this issue .
Awesome app, really great to to around with my Thingy!
I have given it 4 stars because the magnetometer needs a calibration procedure. I am currently travelling north on a bus and The Thingy has done two full revolutions of the compass and telling me I'm heading east. Other than that, it's a great app. Oh, while I think about it, why no NFC support when there is an NFC antenna?
Could not connect to the Thingy from my Note 4. It says connected from the first screen after thebscan, but after the get started message it refuses to connect at all.
What a versatile kit and nice function APP! It's really amazing to sensing the real world through Thingy and the APP :)
Thingy is really cool. Small DevKit with bunch of sensors onboard.
Initially the device wouldn't pair with my tablet. I turned the thingy off and on again and it now seems to be working....except that it keeps asking me if I want to update the firmware to 2.2.0. When I select confirm, the app crashes.