nRF51 Dongle Sniffing Python 3.6

[horacelai]

Hi,

We are trying to implement an interface to sniff bluetooth data. We are using Linux with Ubuntu 18.04. Our code for other interfaces are written in Python 3.6. Naturally, we also have Python 2.7 installed as well by default from Ubuntu 18.04.

We bought the nRF51 dongle and are having problems trying to get the sniffing to work on our machine. We have tried the tutorials regarding sniffing in Wireshark which did not work either. The interface never showed up on the list, even with the permissions added for nrf_sniffer.py

Now we are trying to see if we can only use Python, without using Wireshark, because we will have to do that sooner or later to merge with the rest of the code in our project. But all the code from the Nordic download for the sniffer here is written in Python 2.7.

Is there a Python 3 version of this code somewhere? What's a good approach to implement BLE sniffing with our requirements?

Regards,

Horace

[horacelai]

Hi Einar,

Yes I had pyserial 3.4, for python 2.7.

Our requirements are BLE sniffing using OS Ubuntu 18.04, Python3.6. We are trying to use the sniffer as part of our test code which has various other interfaces. Everything has been done in Python 3.6 so far.

[Einar Thorsrud]

I see. Then we do not have anything to offer directly, but you are free to pick what you want from our sniffer and use it in your own setup (just make sure to respect the limitations listed in LICENSE.txt) or try to port it to Python 3.6, if that makes more sense.  Alternatively, if you just need for instance a BLE observer (and not a sniffer), then you can use for instance the pc-ble-driver-py, which supports Python 3.