A lot off missing PDUs with Sniffer 3

RE: A lot off missing PDUs with Sniffer 3

Torsten Robitzki — Fri, 08 May 2020 06:46:00 GMT

For those of us, that are in need to inspect BLE connections with higher bandwidth, but are not capable to but 10k on the table, here is a very interesting open source project, similar to the nRF Sniffer: github.com/.../Sniffle

RE: A lot off missing PDUs with Sniffer 3

Torsten Robitzki — Tue, 05 May 2020 13:13:41 GMT

Hi Kenneth,

thanks for the response! Well Frontline and Ellisys Sniffer cost 10k to 20k€ which is not very much, if you share the device in a company with 10 developers but it is too much for a one man company like mine.

The dilemma is: If I would start to develop a product similar to the sniffer that Nordic is offering, I could probably offer a product in the range of 1000-2000€ that would be able to cover all of the BLE 5.1 features. But: as soon as Nordic comes with version 4.0 of the current sniffer and closed the existing gap, all the month of developing such a "small price" sniffer would be void.

Would be super cool, if Nordic could / would open source their Sniffer. I would be happy to contribute ;-)

best regards,

Torsten

RE: A lot off missing PDUs with Sniffer 3

Kenneth — Tue, 05 May 2020 12:52:35 GMT

For 2M PHY, DLE and L2CAP I can confirm that the sniffer is not able to send all the data from the chip fast enough over the USB (UART actually).

For your budget you may check out if Frontline or Ellisys have something to offer, I have good experience with both.

Best regards,
Kenneth