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Re:Make a low-cost Bluetooth LE packet sniffer with Wireshark by ajb on Thursday August 10, 2023 @03:32AM (#37073108)
Bluetooth is a frequency hopping protocol. Most hardware is provisioned to access one channel at a time. In BLE, even the initial setup can happen over once of three channels. My understanding is that it's difficult for a sniffer to work reliably (including the one in the OP) unless the hardware is provisioned to receive multiple channels. But I'm not an expert in it.
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Re:Make a low-cost Bluetooth LE packet sniffer with Wireshark by hamandcheese on Thursday August 10, 2023 @05:28AM (#37073872)
You're probably right, you just reminded me of btlejack, a project for BLE sniffing which can use 3 distinct listeners to reliably sniff setup:

https://github.com/virtualabs/btlejack

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