HI!
Does any one know any sniffer that works with xbee? I've used xSniffer with crossbow gateway but with no lucky capturing xbee packets...
Any help will be apreciated.

Thank you

I don't think its possible to use an XBee as a sniffer. The problem is that the software on the XBee is closed. If you can figure out how to put it into promiscuous mode w/no auto ACK'ing, then that would be a step towards making an XBee sniffer. Otherwise you probably need to use a platform that you can load your own code on to.

I see... That's what I was afraid to found .
So even if I buy a 802.15.4 sniffer like KIT, AVR ZLINK 2.4GHZ PACKET SNIFFER it will be hard to get xbee packets?

We're trying to understand the xbees network association process in a detailed way, but not being able to capture those packets that will be hard.

Thanks for your support and btw nice work here in the forum

Akiba,

I think you are not answering his question, . MRodrigues want a sniffer to capture XBee's packets instead of use XBee as a sniffer to capture, forgive my english here.

MRodrigues,

I've been using the AVR ZLINK sniffer (AVR RZ541) you mentioned above capture XBee traffic without much of problem, we can pretty much see all the packets going back-and-forth in the air.

And, I have colleague using another sniffer to get XBee traffics without trouble.

The packets in air are standard 802.15.4 packet, you can see all the bits. Even with encrypted message you can see the payload body - but of course, it is encrypted, and you can't read it. Otherwise, you can see your payload in hex format.

So, my answer to your question is: it is possible, but why you can't do it with XSniffer, I have no idea... (have you do a exhaust channel scan?) or, maybe your env is too noisy, so, you overlooked them?

Hope it helps!

-Tim

Sorry, I thought you wanted to use XBee as the sniffer. If you use an actual sniffer to decode XBee packets, it should be fine. They run on 802.15.4 so capturing XBee packets should be no problem. You can get the Atmel ZLink or the Microchip Zena. I use the Zena (before I got my Daintree Pro) and it works very well for the price.

Tim Ren wrote:

QUOTE:
Akiba,

I think you are not answering his question, :). MRodrigues want a sniffer to capture XBee's packets instead of use XBee as a sniffer to capture, forgive my english here.

MRodrigues,

I've been using the AVR ZLINK sniffer (AVR RZ541) you mentioned above capture XBee traffic without much of problem, we can pretty much see all the packets going back-and-forth in the air.

And, I have colleague using another sniffer to get XBee traffics without trouble.

The packets in air are standard 802.15.4 packet, you can see all the bits. Even with encrypted message you can see the payload body - but of course, it is encrypted, and you can't read it. Otherwise, you can see your payload in hex format.

So, my answer to your question is: it is possible, but why you can't do it with XSniffer, I have no idea... (have you do a exhaust channel scan?) or, maybe your env is too noisy, so, you overlooked them?

Hope it helps!

-Tim

Sory the other post, my bad...

Hi TIM.You were right, we were scanning on the wrong channel.. When we changed the channel on the xconfig, bingo xbee packets show on..I Can't believe we didn't tried that.
I was wondering if you know something about the translation of the packets type that shows up on xsniffer.

Thank you very mutch for your help.Hi TIM.You were right, we were scanning on the wrong channel.. When we changed the channel on the xconfig, bingo xbee packets show on..I Can't believe we didn't tried that.
I was wondering if you know something about the translation of the packets type that shows up on xsniffer.

Thank you very mutch for your help.

@Akiba yha that' was it.
Thank you guys. It was very helpfull