Nordic BLE Sniffer Corrupted

[Dave_couling]

It seems after my last round of Window 8.1 updates the Nordic Sniffer no longer functions properly. When I run the Sniffer software, it only can scan for about 1 second before timing out. If I press 'l' to re-scan it cannot perform the operation. If I click 'w' to connect to Wireshark, the Nordic Sniffer software cannot seem to transfer over to Wireshark. No advertisement appear on Wireshark. I've tried several fresh installs of several different versions of Wireshark, but to no luck. I'm worry it is a compatibility issue with the Nordic Sniffer software. Is this a known issue?

-DC

p.s. I've also tested on several PCA10000 dongles and re-flashed to be certain.

[Paolo D]

I am having the exact same problem. In the sniffer command line interface it sees a few advertisements then stops, and nothing shows up in Wireshark. I am in a noisy BLE environment with a lot of devices advertising nearby, maybe it's getting overloaded? I am using:

• J-Link v5.12g, as installed by nRF command line tools 9.0.0
• PCA10000 dongle v2.2.0
• Windows 7 64-bit
• Wireshark 1.10.14
• Nordic BLE Sniffer 1.0.1

I tried reflashing with J-Link Commander instead of nRFGo Studio and that didn't make any difference.