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]

With some modifications to Device.py I was able to have the return value in hex for the MAC address.

However, the scan results does not show the extended advertising. Is there a configuration of some sort to return extended advertising?

[JimmyD]

FYI: Your release_notes.txt states that in version 4.0.0 added support for Extended Advertising. I need to know how to implement it on the dongle AND get it on the PC. I'm using the example.py you suggested to try and figure it out. so far, I'm still stuck.

[ovrebekk]

Hi James

The scan(..) function have an argument called findAux which is set to False by default. I believe this argument needs to be set True in order to pick up extended advertisement packets. 

Could you try to start scanning with this argument set and see if it works better? 

In order to do so just call the scan function like this:

mySniffer.scan(findAux=True)

Best regards
Torbjørn

[JimmyD]

This did not change the output. I want to be sure we are on the same page.

I'm calling example.py from the command line.

Within this file, the call to mySniffer.scan(findAux=True) now looks like this.

The output did not change form before I made the change.

[JimmyD]

Also, I noticed that within the file Types.py there are constants. Referring to the ones that start with ADV_TYPE_xxx. I see that there is one named ADV_TYPE_ADV_EXT_IND that I thought would work.  However I did  a search for ADV_TYPE and could not find where these constants are being used.