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Can I use tshark with Nordic BLE Sniffer plugin to capture from command line?

I have a functional Wireshark 2.4.4 windows 10 installation that can capture BLE communications of a selected device.

Is it possible to use the same plugin (with some command line arguments to select the BLE device) and capture from the command line (tshark)?

A basic command would look like this,

tshark -i <interface> -f "(not btle.length == 0)"

Now, I expected that to work for advertisement packets -- but it returns soon with zero packets captured.

If that can be made to work I am trying to figure out how I can specify a BLE device to capture its communications once paired.

Can I use tshark with Nordic BLE Sniffer plugin to capture from command line?

I have a functional Wireshark 2.4.4 windows 10 installation that can capture BLE communications of a selected device.

Is it possible to use the same plugin (with some command line arguments to select the BLE device) and capture from the command line (tshark)?

A basic command would look like this,

tshark -i <interface> -f "(not btle.length == 0)"

Now, I expected that to work for advertisement packets -- but it returns soon with zero packets captured.

If that can be made to work I am trying to figure out how I can specify a BLE device to capture its communications once paired.