is just the nRF51 Dongle enough for Bluetooth Low Energy sniffing ?

[Mehdi_h]

Hello,

My name is Mehdi, and I am a student in a french university. Actually, I am working on a project and I aim to use the Heart Rate for a statical studies to use it as a stress indicator. I have a Heart Rate belt and a windows phone, Nokia Lumia with 'Endemondo' App. I want to sniff the packets sent by the belt to my phone to collect them for my stress detection validation process. I just want to know if I only need the nRF51 Dongle or i will also be needing the nRF51 DK ?

I already tried with Ubertooth but it's a little bit complicated and the tutorials are out of date. Who tried to use the dongle as Bluetooth Low Energy sniffer ?

Thank you.

Mehdi

[David Edwin]

You can use the nRF Sniffer software to run on the nRF51-DK or nRF51-Dongle. However I would discourage the use of the Sniffer as a data collection method, as it needs to be setup etc. It may work for you and you may be satisfied with it, however there a no guarantees for sustained data collection.

It may be simpler to write a PC application to talk to the HRM and ensure that all the data is collected. However I will leave that judgment to you.

[Mehdi_h]

Hello ! Thakn you for your answer! I tried to find the quickest way to get the data, and i have never thought about writing a PC application (Honestly i am not really good at thaht, i have never done it before) but i will try! Thanks for taking the time and answering me !

[David Edwin]

Ok, Please mark the question as answered by clicking on the tick mark so we can close this. Thanks.