Adafruit Bluefruit LE Sniffer - Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE 4.0) - nRF51822 - v2.0 [ADA2269]

It's an amazing unit, I installed mine into an old rtl-sdr v.1 metal housing with some foam around it. Adafruit threw a plugin together for Wireshark that's easy to find install and get this up and capturing within 10 minutes. Absolutely best, most reliable way to ble-packet capture. You will NEVER experience those random bluez crashes, bluetooth process getting killed. This thing will go all day long and never miss a packet. If you have the use case. get one and you won't have to worry for quite a time if you use or make a solid housing for it.

First of all this thing does what it promised to do and that's the most important part. Sure it would be great if it was better supported under Linux or MacOS or both, but alas, that's not really promised and you can get a (much more expensive!) UberTooth if you cannot live without great Linux support.Do closely track usage instructions from the AdaFruit website - that means do get the same version of WireShark in particular, since 2.x release doesn't appear to be working in my experiences. It even worked great in VM which is not recommended.This little device worked wonders for me, sniffing BT LE traffic between a phone and a device I was trying to write an alternative app for. I did need to place device and the phone close together and also place the Bluefruit practically on top of the phone. Watch out that the many lights on the Bluefruit light up as yousniff the traffic, since sometimes right after pairing something goes wrong and sniffing stops, save frustration and restart the sniffing process early when you see the lights going off!

It's very confusing and frustrating about the software supporting the USB. It is not clear where and how to get it.

I sent this back because it doesn't support the latest nRF connect software. It is an obsoleted chip. No support for Zigbee either.

You do want to make sure to read and follow the somewhat involved software download and install information on the Adafruit website. With that done, it (almost) "just works". The one thing I needed to do was to enable (View/Interface Toolbars/nRF Sniffer) the Nordic nRF toolbar in Wireshark (if you're only seeing broadcast packets, that's what is missing). Once you do that, you can look at either broadcast or connected frames.An invaluable BTLE troubleshooting tool for small money.

This product hardly work, does not work reliably at all.It somehow works, but one can not be sure that it will capture all packets. It stops capturing, then starts again without any good reason.Instructions on how to use it are very complicated.It probably requires some other hardware to update the fw, and even then it is not sure that it will relay work.It might work if this is kind of a hobby, and you want it to work for 5 minutes, but you can not leave it running at night to follow connection.You can not catch packets in promiscuous mode, and you are going to waste a lot of time using it.

This is an Adafruit product very well made and designed The team at Adfruit make very good products and appear to care more about the consumer than the profit. Very impressed would buy again. I love Adafruit checkout their site for ideas on how to implement this product.

This worked perfectly for my application. I was able to sniff and reverse engineer the protocol my Bluetooth LE device was using and write a replacement.I used the windows software and Wireshark to do my analysis.