• I slightly misunderstood the root cause. Given that my probe is made out of 2 pads, one for D11, the other one for GND, putting it into water doesn't increase the capacitance but instead lower the impedance. I suspect that the latter is low enough to prevent the capSense timer to reach the compare threshold, thus generating a timeout on the function nrf_utils_cap_sense().

    Now I will try 2 things:

    1. removing the GND pin and see if the water detection is reliable,
    2. trying to measure the DC voltage on CAPSENSE_RXpin (CAPSENSE_TX put to logic HIGH), given the water impedance could be equal to or lower than the 1Meg resistor of the capSense feature.
About