{"id":4158,"date":"2019-09-27T08:07:24","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T08:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4158"},"modified":"2019-09-27T08:07:52","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T08:07:52","slug":"bluetooth-5-packet-sniffing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/bluetooth-5-packet-sniffing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth 5 Packet Sniffing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When testing beacons and Bluetooth LE, <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"nRF Connect is usually sufficient (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/testing-if-a-beacon-is-working\/\" target=\"_blank\">nRF Connect is usually sufficient<\/a>. However, if you need deeper analysis of Bluetooth you need to use a packet sniffer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NCC Group has a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nccgroup.trust\/us\/our-research\/sniffle-a-sniffer-for-bluetooth-5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"open source sniffer (opens in a new tab)\">open source sniffer<\/a> for Bluetooth 5 that also works with Bluetooth 4.x. You need to run the software on a Texas Instruments (TI) CC26x2 board. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"609\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sniffleusage.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sniffleusage.png 609w, https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/sniffleusage-300x249.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The source code and instructions are <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/nccgroup\/sniffle\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"available on GitHub (opens in a new tab)\">available on GitHub<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When testing beacons and Bluetooth LE, nRF Connect is usually sufficient. However, if you need deeper analysis of Bluetooth you need to use a packet sniffer. NCC Group has a new open source sniffer for Bluetooth 5 that also works with Bluetooth 4.x. You need to run the software on a Texas Instruments (TI) CC26x2 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/bluetooth-5-packet-sniffing\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bluetooth 5 Packet Sniffing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,122],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4158"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4161,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4158\/revisions\/4161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beaconzone.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}