The nRF Sniffer for Bluetooth®
LE software consists of
firmware that is programmed onto a Development Kit (DK) or dongle and a capture
plugin for Wireshark that records and analyzes the detected data.
Download nRF Sniffer for Bluetooth LE v4.x or later and extract the archive into a folder of your choice. In the following sections, this folder is referred to as Sniffer_Software.
Then program the firmware to the DK or dongle, install
the nRF Sniffer capture tool, and add a Wireshark profile
for the nRF Sniffer as described in the following sections.
Programming the nRF Sniffer firmware
You must connect a DK or dongle running the nRF Sniffer firmware to your computer to be able to use the nRF Sniffer for Bluetooth LE.
Installing Wireshark on Ubuntu Linux
Installing Wireshark on Ubuntu Linux requires setting up permissions for the current users by adding them to specific user groups.