cannot talk to dongle after connect

[JimmyD]

I connect to the nRF52840-MDK dongle thru the Serial Terminal (nRF52 Connectivity) it found the comm port and set the baudrate automatically. However, the terminal window constantly fills up the screen with ~/ characters. it repeats every 1 second. What I would like is detailed instructions on how to configure this dongle to be a BT 5 sniffer and read the Extended Advertising for any BT device near the dongle. It would also be helpful to filter the devices seen. Eventually I like to use Python to filter the choices and obtain the advertises data where I can parse the data received. I'm using Windows 10 pro.

Thanks.

[JimmyD]

Torbjorn,

I started to look into this again. I modified your 'example_count_by_type_v2.py" to print out only selected mac addresses and the data in hex.

I noticed at the top of this file you including SnifferAPI. Since I'm new to Python, I presume that you are including everything in the subfolder named SnifferAPI. I started looking into these files and found one named "Types.py".  I cannot find the type "AUX_SCAN_RSP" it seems that WireShark was able to extract the data I need using this type. Is it possible to include this type while scanning and see the data of this type? Let me know if this edit is simple you can send it to me or send me a new file.  

Greatly appreciate it.

FYI: I'll be out tomorrow (Wednesday)  and return on Monday.

Jim D.

[JimmyD]

I did find ADV_TYPE_SCAN_RSP in Type.py, I think that this is a clue, but not sure if this is enabled, I'll need help.

Thanks again.