nrf_sniffer_2.0.0-beta-1_51296aa/PCA10040/windows 7 not working

RE: nrf_sniffer_2.0.0-beta-1_51296aa/PCA10040/windows 7 not working

BramPeeters — Sun, 04 Feb 2018 11:47:14 GMT

Haha, thanks for sharing your experiences, it helps a bit that I am not the only one close to throwing it out of the window :P.

Sometimes it worked a bit longer before hanging and I got to see some of the stuff I was looking for. But it remains completely unreliable/unstable. I makes me wonder how many takes it took to make the demo video on the product page :). Or was the previous version much more stable ??

Something i never got to work was going through bonding to exchange security keys (just works mode) and see the encrypted traffic afterwards. But for some reason he does not show anything from the encrypted traffic, not even the encrypted packets. According to the manual it should even be able to decrypt it if he was able to watch the bonding ... maybe some day :P

RE: nrf_sniffer_2.0.0-beta-1_51296aa/PCA10040/windows 7 not working

Panometric — Sat, 03 Feb 2018 07:26:17 GMT

I share your frustration with this tool, I need it, but it is not working well yet. Spend many hours trying...

I have not seen your particular problem. But if you can try a clean Win10 machine, I got farther. I had trouble mixing 64 bit python with 32 bit Wireshark. Try both in 64 bit.

In the bat file, specify the python27 version in case your path finds another first. "c:\python27\python "%~dp0nrf_sniffer.py" %*"

in nrf_sniffer.py, I had to change:

import Sniffer, myVersion, Logger, UART -> from SnifferAPI import Sniffer, myVersion, Logger, UART

Then it will capture up until the first connection dis-connects, but then it hangs. The good news is that it follows the connection channel hops every time, unlike the Adadfruit.

Good luck, and let's all hope Nordic puts some more effort into that software.

RE: nrf_sniffer_2.0.0-beta-1_51296aa/PCA10040/windows 7 not working

BramPeeters — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 11:19:10 GMT

Cool, thanks ! I am also at version 3.4

RE: nrf_sniffer_2.0.0-beta-1_51296aa/PCA10040/windows 7 not working

shibshab — Wed, 24 Jan 2018 11:11:48 GMT

One way to find the pyserial version is to open a python terminal and do

import serial

print serial.version

3.4