BLE Sniffer crashing

[bds]

I'm trying to use the BLE sniffer in a quite busy BLE environment. Unfortunately, it always crashes after a few seconds.

I'm using: ble-sniffer_win_1.0.1 nRF51 Dongle J-Lkn 5.12e Windows 7 Pro 64 bit

See attached log file. log.txt

Any ideas?

Added new log file with PCA10028 v1.2.0 and J-Link 5.10m: log.txt

[David Edwin]

Hmmm. The python script seems to be crashing so we should try to remove that from the equation. You can try the PC solutions from Adafruit or the OS X BTLE Sniffer software . If they fail as well, then we can examine the UART interface.

Let us know what happens after you use different PC software.

Added: Ok, as you say, it is not changing with the Adafruit python.

I have a limited work around, it appears that the memory usage of the ble-sniffer PC console is a bit odd as it seems to grow quite fast, so I suggest that you have just the sniffer running so that it has a lot of memory available for itself. The work around is limited as it will eventually run out of memory and crash. I measured usage excess of 100MB when having about 20 devices. I am acknowledging it as a bug and needs a fix.

Using the OS X version of the console seems to be only real work around.

[David Edwin]

20 beacons is not a lot, what is the nRF51-Dongle version ? Can you down grade your jlink to 5.10n if you are using the latest nRF51-Dongle (PCA10031 v1.1.0). See the section on "J-Link / J-Trace firmware" in the UM08001_JLink.pdf that is present your jlink installation.