Nordic has a free sniffer you load onto the eval kit board or dongle (PCA10000 or PCA10001), at least one of which you'll always get with any of their kits. The app they provide is windows (actually it's a command-line tool) which sends packets to wireshark. I love it and I like that it uses wireshark with which I am very familiar. It works under parallels just fine, I too am an OSX user. I neither like running windows much so I'm about 80% through an OSX version of the software. I initially asked Nordic for the protocol and they said no, so I picked it apart, it's pretty simple, and just last week Nordic open-sourced it which was rather nice of them so it's easier for me to finish it up. Their cheapest kit is $100 but obviously you get more than just a sniffer. If you end up going that way send me an off-list and I'll send you the OSX version when it's done. I've personally given up with TI who aren't even trying to do anything which isn't windows and IAR (in my opinion) whereas Nordic aren't there yet, but they are at least trying. On 18 Apr, 2013, at 5:38 am, Ramin Firoozye <raminf@gmail.com> wrote:
Can't remember if I've mentioned this one before, but there's also Ubertooth (http://ubertooth.sourceforge.net) which sniffs both classic and LE flavors of Bluetooth. It's an open-source project but you can buy a manufactured one for ~$100.
It relies on Kismet to monitor the actual traffic. I've only gotten it to work under Linux and VMWare so far but it provides a lot of raw data. The TI one is a lot simpler and more visual if only working on BTLE.
On Apr 17, 2013, at 12:47 PM, Etan Kissling <kissling@oberon.ch> wrote:
There's a dongle available that comes preloaded with the correct firmware:
http://www.ti.com/tool/cc2540emk-usb The dongle comes preprogrammed as a packet sniffer.
Software: http://www.ti.com/tool/packet-sniffer
Note that the software is pretty unstable if you stream large amounts of packets.
Etan
On 17.04.2013, at 21:40, Ramin Firoozye <raminf@gmail.com> wrote:
Have had no trouble running it under VMWare and Windows 7/8. When you plug it in VMware asks if you want to assign it to the Mac side or Windows.
The other thing is to make it work you have to manually update the dongle with the sniffer firmware. It's been a while, but I have a vague memory of having to use the TI programmer to do the updating, and that's a windows app too.
Overall, much cheaper than running a separate PC. And if you have a second monitor you can put the PC full screen on that one then debug in Xcode in one screen and watch the traffic in the other.
On Apr 17, 2013, at 10:51 AM, Gareth MacLeod <gareth.macleod@gmail.com> wrote:
Hey guys,
I'm looking to pick up a packet sniffer. I know we all like the TI CC2450, but it doesn't look like it comes with software for OSX, and I'd rather not have two computers open to debug a single application. Is there an equivalent package for OSX?
Cheers, Gareth
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