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nRFSniffer shows only Advertisement Indicators

I'm trying to listen to a bluetooth low energy connection between a smart bracelet and my smartphone. In Wireshark 1.10.1 I only can see the Advertising Indicators. As soon as the bracelet is paired with the smartphone application, I can't see any further log entries in wireshark (but I know that there IS data exchange between bracelet and smartphone).

Now I found some older threads in the dev zone (like devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../), where a dev says it's a known bug. Is there any information if and when this bug will be fixed? Or did I bought the sniffer hardware for nothing? I'm really disappointed and frustrated. If this bug won't be fixed, could you recommend a software which is compatible with the hardware?

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  • It's partly related to what I mentioned above, by default we customized the sniffer to catch Nordic advertising packets which by default sending advertising packet on channel 37 then 38 then 39 then on next advertising interval we will start with 37 again. (equal to pressing 7 then 8 then 9 when configuring)

    Device from other vendor may not use the same hopping scheme, and the option to press -h is to modify to match with the hopping scheme on those devices.

    You may want to play a little bit with the scheme to find the one match with your device.

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  • It's partly related to what I mentioned above, by default we customized the sniffer to catch Nordic advertising packets which by default sending advertising packet on channel 37 then 38 then 39 then on next advertising interval we will start with 37 again. (equal to pressing 7 then 8 then 9 when configuring)

    Device from other vendor may not use the same hopping scheme, and the option to press -h is to modify to match with the hopping scheme on those devices.

    You may want to play a little bit with the scheme to find the one match with your device.

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