BLE Sniffer recommendation

[Masahiro Kondo]

Hello, I use nRF51822 for my project and I would like to purchase some BLE packet sniffer. Does anyone recommend any sniffer? My purpose for that is debugging and check transaction, so it will be good that it has a good analysing software on PC. I don't really know how much they cost but I am expecting $500 or something.

Thank you.

Masa

[Gil dePaula]

Ellisys has one, but it costs US$ 40,000 !!!

[Masahiro Kondo]

Oh. I didn't know that one is that expensive... I can't afford that.:( Any cheap one?

[Stephan Walter]

I don't know if it's ok to mention Nordic's competitors here, but TI has a dongle for $50 which can act as a sniffer:

www.ti.com/.../cc2540emk-usb

You might want to buy three of them because each can only scan one advertising channel.

[Masahiro Kondo]

Thanks. I will have a look.

[Gil DePaula]

I think you can use Nordic's EK USB dongle and the Master Control Panel as a sniffer too.

I thought you were looking for a professional "spectrum analyzer" type of equipment. That's what Ellisys sells.