What type of hardware interface is needed to monitor the mesh traffic between nodes in a particle mesh network? (I’m looking for specific pointers to hardware that will work with my soon-to-arrive pre-ordered devices…) I think it would help to have pointers to devices known to work. I understand tha…

As far as I know, no one has done it. But I suspect it’s possible, at least two different ways: Using a USB SDR device, GNU Radio, RFTap, and Wireshark. I found a couple examples of doing Zigbee. Particle Mesh is Thread Mesh, 6LoWPAN over 802.15.4, not Zigbee, but they’re similar. You should be a…

@zonker , this might be what you want: https://wiki.wireshark.org/IEEE_802.15.4 It may or may not decrypt if you’re using any application-layer encryption or special encoding.

@rickkas7 : That’s an ideal answer! The “Thread Mesh, 6LoWPAN over 802.15.4, not Zigbee” portion is what we need to dig in deeper, and should help in the product selection. The SDR answer is a good idea, since a recent ADABOX (007, I think) included a USB SDR. I hoped/expect that the data going fro…

So, nobody at Particle has a “lightweight” solution for monitoring test traffic in the lab, as they are tweaking the new code? Wireshark is a good option, and I also have access to OmniPeek (a high-end commercial packet sniffer), but lack a radio module set up for 802.15.4. I have a ZigBee Pro modu…

There was some discussion about using Nordic's USB development dongle on this thread that you might find interesting: [image] Using Particle Mesh Devices with the OpenThread Border Router BLE // NFC I am trying to use my Raspberry PI3 and/or Linux laptop as an Open Thread…

802.15.4 traffic monitoring (wireshark?)

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There was some discussion about using Nordic's USB development dongle on this thread that you might find interesting:

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802.15.4 traffic monitoring (wireshark?)

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