CP2102 (USB to UART) and RF-BM-ND06 NRF52840 bluetooth module for BLE sniffing application.

[mkkaushiksjce]

I am planning to use CP2102 (USB to UART) and RF-BM-ND06 NRF52840 bluetooth module for sniffing BLE packets .

Or as an alternative for Nordic Bluetooth USB dongle.

But after connecting the hardware to the Nordic NRF Connect Desktop Application I am getting error as "Unsupported device with serial number '0001' and traits".

[Edvin]

Hello,

nRF Connect for Desktop doesn't support custom HW. This is simply because we don't have the capacity to support all kinds of modules for this tool. The reason it say it isn't supported is that the segger ID doesn't match the serial numbers on the DK. 

This is for the nRF Connect for Desktop application. As for the nRF Sniffer, I am not sure whether it will work or not. As you may know, this is a wireshark tool.

You can try to connect the nRF52840 tool with the UART pins 6 and 8 to the uart->USB module, and flash the sniffer firmware for the pca10056 (not pca10059). Perhaps it works, but I am not sure whether this also requires the on board debugger on the DK.

Best regards,

Edvin