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Recently it was announced that BladeRF can now monitor all Bluetooth channels: https://www.nuand.com/2023-02-release-1 ... bandwidth/

This has made me interested in buying a BladeRF. But before I buy it, I would like to know whether this monitoring extends to capturing all the data from all the channels, and not just e.g. knowing that a signal was occurring at some specific time?

I am aware that Bluetooth is FHSS. But I'm interested in whether I could capture all the traffic, and then decode the hopping sequence after the fact (with my own script) and use that to decode the traffic. If so, then that'd be a reason for me to buy the BladeRF.

That is the intended purposes of ice9-bluetooth-sniffer, checkout the recent release at https://github.com/mikeryan/ice9-bluetooth-sniffer !

I believe it will be a great feature to attract users in the near futuredinosaur game

robert.ghilduta wrote: ↑Mon Jun 19, 2023 5:25 am That is the intended purposes of ice9-bluetooth-sniffer, checkout the recent release at https://github.com/mikeryan/ice9-bluetooth-sniffer !

While I agree that is the intended purpose, unfortunately ice9-sniffer doesn't work in practice. It misses all sorts of traffic that other Bluetooth sniffers like Sniffle capture just fine :-/

It’s exciting to see advancements like the BladeRF that allow for monitoring Bluetooth channels! Capturing all traffic and decoding the hopping sequence would certainly provide valuable insights. However, keep in mind the legal and ethical implications of monitoring Bluetooth communications. If you can achieve that level of data capture, it could justify the investment in the BladeRF!