nRF Sniffer Interface not showing up in Wireshark on macOS (11.5.1)

Question

I recently followed the instructions laid out in the "nRF Sniffer for Bluetooth LE" User Guide version 4.0.0 and having trouble seeing the nRF Sniffer interface in Wireshark (v 3.4.7). 
 The only way I could get it to show up is to run Wireshark as an administrator. I recall this being an issue a couple of years ago, has this not been fixed? or is there something special that needs to be done to enable Wireshark to see the nRF Sniffer when run in user mode? I can see all the other interfaces, but not the nRF Sniffer.

Vidar Berg · Accepted Answer

Mohammad Afaneh , I don't recall having to change permissions on my mac to get the sniffer to work. I have however had some problems related to having multiple python installations on my system that basically resulted in a different python instance being invoked from command line compared the one invoked by Wireshark. 
 Could you please try the following: 
 1. Open Wireshark from the terminal, but not as root, and see if it has the same effect as running Wireshark in admin mode. Apparently the PATH variable is different depending on how you launch a GUI application in macos. E.g. binaries in /usr/ local /bin does not seem to get found. 
 2. Try to install PySerial for other Python installations. E.g. /usr/bin/python3 -m pip install --user pyserial && /usr/bin/python -m pip install --user pyserial

nRF Sniffer Interface not showing up in Wireshark on macOS (11.5.1)

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