pc-ble-driver, Master Emulator, Scripting, throughput

Question

My company is developing an embedded product based on NRF52 and until now we are
using Master Control Panel (MCP) to test BLE communication. MCP is a great tool
but we need something similar that allow us to write some scripts that will be
used to do automatic tests and to log notifications and indications. 
 We have a couple of NRF51 dongles here and the pc-ble-driver provided by Nordic
would be suitable for this, but it seems to have data throughput limitations:
( devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../) 
 So, I have some questions: 
 
 
 Is there an updated version of pc-ble-driver that supports higher throughput? 
 
 
 Is it possible to use the Master Control Panel DLL to get higher throughput?
( devzone.nordicsemi.com/.../) 
 
 
 Do you know other tool/sniffer (commercial or free) that is suitable to read
BLE data (mostly notifications and indications) and write scripts to handle that
data? 
 
 
 Any suggestion is appreciated! 
 Thanks

Hung Bui · Accepted Answer

Hi Hagar, 
 
 
 If you use 1mbps, it should give you better throughput. I'm not sure what would be the highest possible throughput though. 
 
 
 You can use the Master Emulator API comes with the Master Control Panel software. It provides the same API that the Master Control Panel uses. But be aware that the Master Emulator only acts as central role, no other roles. This is different from the pc_ble_driver who can acts as peripheral, advertiser also. 
 
 
 Our nRFSniffer can capture BLE activities and export to Wireshark format and you can use other tool to extract information you want. 
 
 
 Another option I would like to suggest is to create your own central on the nRF5 instead of using our connectivity fimrware and you use your own UART protocol for your test. For example you can create a central that only connect to specific device name and only report to PC the notification the central got. What you do with the central and what to be transmitted to PC is up to you.