TShark will not capture BTLE packets with nRF sniffer

[jrx07]

I am having issues using tshark to capture BTLE advertising packets.

The system works very well with Wireshark. However, when I try to run `tshark` from the command line, it immediately quits and says "0 packets captured."

Any ideas why it may be working in Wireshark but not in Tshark?

Setup: I am using the nRF51 DK for the sniffer. This works well via the Wireshark GUI (version 2.6.1) as I mentioned. I have a peripheral device that is sending advertising packets and Wireshark easily detects them (i.e. I know the hardware works and there are advertising packets being sent).

Command used: After navigating to my Wireshark folder on the command line, I type:

tshark -i 6 -a duration:10

My nRF sniffer is interface 6. Everything is run on Windows 8.

Further Info: TShark works correctly if I try to capture wifi

tshark -i 1 -a duration:10

where interface 1 is the wifi interface.

Thanks!

[Håkon Alseth]

Hi Matt,

 

Sorry that we've disappointed you! :\ I can assure you that this isn't our intention.

I've bumped the internal feature request on t-shark support.

 

Kind regards,

Håkon

[Matthew C Clark]

I'd appreciate it!  Even a hack of the baseline v3 would be useful.  A version of the python script I could pipe into a tcpdump would be great.

[Matthew C Clark]

Any luck?  Anything that would let me do it from a command line or otherwise programatically would be great.

[Simon_89]

Are there any updates on this issue? 
Is it still the case that tshark is not supporting the nrf dongle?

[Håkon Alseth]

Hi,

 

tshark is still not supported:

 nRF52840 support for tshark? 

 

Kind regards,

Håkon