nRF Sniffer crashing

[Marius Heil]

Hello,

is the nRF Sniffer still in Development? The ble sniffer program keeps crashing at random after about 10-20 seconds and is barely usable for me. I have around 20 beacons advertising in proximity. I flashed the firmware on different nRF Dongles but without success. Here is the traceback that crashes the program:

15-Jun-2016 10:43:40 (Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit) ERROR: 
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\bamboo\xml-data\build-dir\BLESNIFFER-RELEASEBUILD-JOB1\Host\Application\SnifferAPI\Packet.py", line 160, in getPacket
  File "C:\bamboo\xml-data\build-dir\BLESNIFFER-RELEASEBUILD-JOB1\Host\Application\SnifferAPI\Packet.py", line 137, in decodeFromSLIP
UARTPacketError: Unexpected character after SLIP_ESC: 0.
15-Jun-2016 10:43:40 (Mitteleuropäische Sommerzeit) ERROR: CRASH
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\bamboo\xml-data\build-dir\BLESNIFFER-RELEASEBUILD-JOB1\Host\Application\SnifferAPI\Sniffer.py", line 150, in run
  File "C:\bamboo\xml-data\build-dir\BLESNIFFER-RELEASEBUILD-JOB1\Host\Application\SnifferAPI\Sniffer.py", line 175, in runSniffer
  File "C:\bamboo\xml-data\build-dir\BLESNIFFER-RELEASEBUILD-JOB1\Host\Application\SnifferAPI\SnifferCollector.py", line 153, in _continuouslyPipe
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'valid'

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I used different SEGGER firmwares but these did not solve the problem. Using the 3rd Party OSX application works excellnt, but I do not use OS X and I would be greatful if the bug in the nRF Sniffer Application could be fixed.

Thanks, Marius

[Hung Bui]

Hi Marius,

Could you give more information on :

• Which operating system you are using ?

• Which Segger firmware ?

• Which hardware board (and version) you are using as sniffer front end ?

• Could you send the full log file of nRFSniffer console (press s when issue occurs). Also please take a screenshot when issue happens.

• Please send us a wireshark trace recording a session until it crashes.

• If you have less advertiser around, would it work ? In my case here, I have seen more than 20 advertiser and it still works.