BLE 4.2 sniffer

[lbehhhh]

I am hoping to get solid verification that nordic offers a solution for sniffing BLE 4.2 packets.

The application I need to sniff is maxing out the MTU (250B payload) so I need support for long packets.

The blogs and googling haven't provided me with a solid answer.

Thanks

[Hung Bui]

At this moment our answer is no, we do not have plans to add this support. However it may change in the coming months.

[RK]

The recent softdevices support long packets, so you can write BLE code which uses long packets. The sniffer code which Nordic provides for free however does not support long packets and according to the reply above there are no plans to update it at present. So you can write code which uses long packets, if you have a 3rd party sniffer which supports them you can sniff them, however you can't use the nordic BLE sniffer at this point to sniff long packets.

The softdevice support for long packets is entirely independent from the Nordic sniffer binary, you can't use the softdevice as a sniffer, they aren't the same thing.