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

[Torsten Robitzki]

I'm in the very same situation. I have MTU sizes > 200 bytes and I'm blind to what happens over the air. In addition, I have the problem, that I'm using a Mac to work with. If I got the NRF Sniffer architecture right: There is a firmware on an evaluation board, sending the received data via a serial connection, which is then reformated by some python scripts, which send sends the data to wireshark for interpretation.

I would be happy to help to port the windows-only part to OS/X and to help to improve the eval board firmware, if Nordic want's to release this as open source.

I mean, yes, I could write a firmware for an eval board that does the same and write an adapter for wireshark, but this would likely take me some weeks and the NRF Sniffer is already there.

[endnode]

I'm afraid you are right but anyway I would very much recommend Nordic to invest to their Sniffer, it could be again great tool on nRF52 or nRF52840 DK and marketing impact on the community (= people who are not using nRF chips yet but would use Sniffer and potentially migrate to Nordic HW completely) could easily bring the investment back... but probably just my view.