BLE sniffer nRF51822 Wireshark sees interfaces but only showing Advertising packets

[sphinxxx]

Hi all,  I'm using this particular Adafruit product with the nRF51822 chip: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00SKWGPE0

I'm on OSX 14.2,  M2 processor

I've had a hell of a time getting this to work.  After installing the USB/serial driver, extcap files and pyserial I was able to get the interface to show up in Wireshark.  Initially I didn't see the interface but another suport article here on the forum helped me realize using pyenv can cause an issue where Wireshark doesn't recognize pyserial.  I finally got it to work, but the issue is..

It reads packets but only advertising packets. 

I use my phone to connect to my BLE device and do not see anything registering, just Advertising packets.

[Karl Ylvisaker]

Hello,

I am glad to read that you now have got the sniffer up and running, great! :) 
If you wish for the device to follow into a connection you must select the advertising device in the 'device dropdown menu' before the connection is initiated:


You can read about other common sniffer actions here.

Best regards,
Karl

[sphinxxx]

That's what I was missing.  Thank you!

[Karl Ylvisaker]

No problem at all, I am happy to help and glad to read that everything now works as expected!

Please do not hesitate to open another ticket if you should encounter any issues or questions in the future.

Good luck with your development! :) 

Best regards,
Karl