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<h3 id="sniffer">Sniffer</h3>
The entry point for the API.
<table>
<tr class="trh">
<th>Field</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td id="td1">missedPackets</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>The number of missed packets over the UART, as determined by the packet counter in the header. Derived using the <a href="#tr-packetCounter">packetCounter</a> field.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>packetsInLastConnection</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>The number of packets which were sniffed in the last BLE connection. From CONNECT_REQ until link loss/termination.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>connectEventPacketCounterValue</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>The packet counter value of the last received connect request.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>inConnection</td>
<td>bool</td>
<td>A boolean indicating whether the sniffed device is in a connection.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>currentConnectRequest</td>
<td><a href="#h3-packet">Packet</a></td>
<td>A Packet object containing the last received connect request.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>state</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>The internal state of the sniffer. States are defined in SnifferCollector module. Valid values are 0-2.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>portnum</td>
<td>int or string</td>
<td>The COM port of the sniffer hardware. During initialization, this value is a preset.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>swversion</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>The version number of the API software.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>fwversion</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>The version number of the sniffer firmware.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="trh">
<th>Function</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>__init__(portnum)</td>
<td><a href="#h3-sniffer">Sniffer</a></td>
<td>Constructor for the Sniffer class. The optional argument "portnum" is a string with the name of the port the sniffer board is at, e.g. "COM17". If not provided, the API will locate it automatically, but this takes more time.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>start()</td>
<td>void</a></td>
<td>Starts the Sniffer thread. This call must be made (once and only once) before using the sniffer object.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>getPackets(number)</td>
<td>List<<a href="#h3-packet">Packet</a>></td>
<td>Get [number] number of packets since last fetch (-1 means all). Note that the packet buffer is limited to about 80000 packets. </td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>getDevices()</td>
<td><a href="#h3-deviceList">DeviceList</a></td>
<td>Get a list of devices which are advertising in range of the Sniffer.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>follow(<a href="#h3-device">device</a>, followOnlyAdvertisements)</td>
<td>void</td>
<td>Signal the Sniffer firmware to sniff a specific device. If followOnlyAdvertisements is True, the sniffer will not sniff a connection, only advertisements from the followed device.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>scan()</td>
<td>void</td>
<td>Signal the Sniffer to scan for advertising devices by sending the REQ_SCAN_CONT UART packet. This will cause it to stop sniffing any device it is sniffing at the moment.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>sendTK(TK)</td>
<td>void</td>
<td>Send a temporary key to the sniffer for use when decrypting encrypted connections. TK is a list of 16 ints, each representing a byte in the temporary key. TK is on big-endian form.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>setPortnum(portnum)</td>
<td>void</td>
<td>Set the preset COM port number. Only use this during startup. Set to None to search all ports.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>doExit()</td>
<td>void</td>
<td>Gracefully shut down the sniffer threads and connections.</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h3 id="device">Device</h3>
Class representing a BLE device from which the sniffer has picked up data.
<table>
<tr class="trh">
<th>Field</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1" id="td-address">
<td>address</td>
<td>List< int ></td>
<td>A list representing the device address of this device: [int, int, int, int, int, int]</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>txAdd</td>
<td>bool</td>
<td>A boolean representing whether the device address is public (False) or random (True).</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1" id="tr-name">
<td>name</td>
<td>string</td>
<td>A string containing the name (short or complete) of the device.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>RSSI</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>An int representing the approximate RSSI value of packets received from this device.</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h3 id="devicelist">DeviceList</h3>
A class representing a list of devices. Used to simplify extraction of devices using BLE metadata.
<table>
<tr class="trh">
<th>Function</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1" id="tr-find">
<td>find(id)</td>
<td><a href="#device">Device</a></td>
<td>Find a device in this DeviceList using either <a href="#tr-name">name</a> or <a href="#tr-address">address</a>. Returns None if no device is found.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>remove(id)</td>
<td><a href="#device">Device</a></td>
<td>Remove a device from this DeviceList. Argument "id" has same format as in <a href="#tr-find">find</a>.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>append(<a href="#h3-device">Device</a>)</td>
<td>void</td>
<td>Append a Device to the device list.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>index(<a href="#h3-device">Device</a>)</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>Returns the index of the provided Device.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>getList()</td>
<td>List<<a href="#h3-device">Device</a>></td>
<td>Returns a list of the Devices in this DeviceList.</td>
</tr>
</table>
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<h3 id="packet">Packet</h3>
Represents the UART packet sent by the sniffer to the host.
<table>
<tr class="trh">
<th>Field</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>headerLength</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>The length of the UART header.</td>
<td rowspan="5"> UART header </td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>payloadLength</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>The length of the UART payload.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>protover</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>The UART protocol version used.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1" id="tr-packetCounter">
<td>packetCounter</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>Unique (16 bit) packet identifier which increments for each packet sent by the sniffer.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>id</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>Identifier telling what type of packet this is. See UART protocol document.</td>
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<td>bleHeaderLength</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>Length of the NRF_BLE_PACKET header.</td>
<td rowspan="9"> NRF_BLE_PACKET header </td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>crcOK</td>
<td>bool</td>
<td>Was the CRC received by the sniffer OK.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>micOK</td>
<td>bool</td>
<td>Is the message integriy check OK. Only relevant in encrypted state.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>direction</td>
<td>bool</td>
<td>Only relevant during connection. True -> Master to Slave, False -> Slave to Master</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>encrypted</td>
<td>bool</td>
<td>has the packet been encrypted.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>channel</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>Which channel was the packet picked up from [0 - 39]</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>RSSI</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>The RSSI value reported by the sniffer. NOT PRECISE. Real value is the negative of this value.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>eventCounter</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>The eventcounter of the packet in the connection. Only relevant for packets in a connection.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>timestamp</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>Microseconds from the end of the last packet to the start of this one.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>blePacket</td>
<td><a href="#blepacket"> BlePacket</a></td>
<td>The blePacket contained within this packet.</td>
<td rowspan="6"> Other </td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>packetList</td>
<td>List< int ></td>
<td>The entire UART packet as sent by the sniffer (with the exception of a padding byte which is removed).</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>OK</td>
<td>bool</td>
<td>Is the error detection of the attached BLE packet OK?</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>payload</td>
<td>List< int ></td>
<td>List containing the UART payload as bytes.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>txADD</td>
<td>bool</td>
<td>Is the address public or random? True -> Random, False -> Public. Only relevant for advertisement packets.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>version</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>The firmware version of the sniffer. Only sent in PING_RESP packets.</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h3 id="blepacket">BlePacket</h3>
Represents the BLE packet received over the air by the sniffer.
<table>
<tr class="trh">
<th>Field</th>
<th>Type</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>accessAddress</td>
<td>List< int ></td>
<td>A list of bytes representing the access for this packet.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>advType</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>The advertisement type field.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>advAddress</td>
<td>List< int ></td>
<td>The advertising address.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>name</td>
<td>string</td>
<td>The value of the localname property of the ble packet.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>payload</td>
<td>List< int ></td>
<td>The entire BLE payload (not including access address and header fields).</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>length</td>
<td>int</td>
<td>The value of the length field of the BLE PDU</td>
</tr>
</table>
<h3 id="exceptions">Exceptions</h3>
The exceptions raised by the API.
<table>
<tr class="trh">
<th>Exception</th>
<th>Description</th>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>SnifferTimeout</td>
<td>UART read time out.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>UARTPacketError</td>
<td>UART SLIP parsing error.</td>
</tr>
<tr class="tr1">
<td>InvalidPacketException</td>
<td>Other UART parsing error.</td>
</tr>
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