Notes on using Adafruit's "Bluefruit" BLE sniffer with a Raspberry Pi

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Working to sniff Bluetooth Low Energy with the adafruit sniffer

For more information, see this blog post

Going the python route, as described here

before installing pySerial, did ...

apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

which was probably unnecessary and took a long time :-(

then did

sudo pip install pyserial

downloaded the adafruit python sniffer package, sniffer.py

sudo git clone https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_BLESniffer_Python.git

changed into that directory

cd Adafruit_BLESniffer_Python/

tried their example command, which worked:

sudo python sniffer.py -h

in order to get pyserial to talk with the usb port, apparently need to do this, to add the "pi" user to the dialout group:

sudo usermod -a -G dialout pi

ok, so now I need a port to listen to ... where the sniffer device is. so apparently I do this:

ls -l /dev/tty*

which lists a whole bunch of things I don't understand, except that the last lines are:

crw------- 1 root root      4,  7 Dec 31  1969 /dev/tty7
crw------- 1 root root      4,  8 Dec 31  1969 /dev/tty8
crw------- 1 root root      4,  9 Dec 31  1969 /dev/tty9
crw-rw---- 1 root tty     204, 64 May 16 13:09 /dev/ttyAMA0
crw-rw---T 1 root dialout   5,  3 Dec 31  1969 /dev/ttyprintk
crw-rw---T 1 root dialout 188,  0 Dec 31  1969 /dev/ttyUSB0

Tried the AMA0 one, which didn't work. The USB0 one, did!

sudo python sniffer.py /dev/ttyUSB0

Results:

Scanning for BLE devices (5s) ...
Found 2 BLE devices:

  [1] "" (B8:78:2E:1C:2F:10, RSSI = -104)
  [2] "MetaWear" (EA:A1:88:31:45:21, RSSI = -88)

Select a device to sniff, or '0' to scan again
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Very cool.

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