See What Your Bluetooth LE Device Is Actually Doing
Most teams stuck on a Bluetooth LE problem cannot see the air at all. I get a professional sniffer running against your device, then help you work out what to capture next.
✓ Consulting • ✓ Team training • ✓ Tools and test equipment
Trusted by Leading Companies Worldwide
Teams at these companies have worked with me on Bluetooth LE.
Your Device Fails and the Logs Do Not Say Why
App logs and an HCI trace reason from data that never contained the answer. No amount of analysis, AI-assisted or otherwise, recovers what was never captured. The capture you need usually turns out to be the one you did not think to take.
The Bluetooth LE Debug Block
A professional sniffer on loan, and someone who knows which capture to take next. First you can see the air, then you have judgment on what you are looking at.
See the air
A professional sniffer, on loan, running against your device in your environment. The loaner ships within the United States only.
Know what to capture
What your current data can actually tell you, which is usually less than you think, and exactly what to capture next: with what, under what conditions, in what order.
Get a written finding
The root cause where one is established, or the remaining candidates and what would tell them apart, plus how big the problem is and who should own it.
Start where you're stuck
Begin by getting you capturing, then buy days against the problem only if you need them.
Capture & Triage Day
One day. We get a professional sniffer running against your device and leave you with a capture plan. Not a diagnosis, and often the plan alone is enough.
Sniffer on loan for two weeks, credited in full against a Debug Block booked within 30 days.
Debug Block
Five days drawn down in half-day increments, across the rounds it takes. You capture, I analyze, I specify what to capture next.
Loaner extended to eight weeks, yours to use freely without drawing down the day bank.
Additional Days
The block buys days, not an outcome. When it runs out you can buy more, or stop.
Available in half-day increments.
It is evidence, not assurance. Findings are what was observed, in the captures provided, under the conditions provided. You own the claim you make from it.
What Clients Say About Working With Me
These are training engagements, not Debug Blocks. The Debug Block puts the same instruments, and the same judgment, on your specific problem.
…The training included hands-on sessions where we updated firmware for a BLE device and were able to see the BLE advertisements from our changes.
I especially liked the BLE packet and spectrum analyzer tooling where we were able to see all the radio traffic with BLEs.
…He demonstrated his extensive knowledge of Bluetooth and was able to answer many of our questions as they came up during the training.
…Mohammad was able to answer every question the group had and could even provide real world examples on most things.
I'm a hardware engineer, but I still found a ton of value in using the development kits and sniffers provided by Mohammad.
Your Bluetooth LE Expert
I'm Mohammad Afaneh. I've spent the last decade helping engineers master Bluetooth LE development. Since founding Novel Bits in 2015, I've trained developers at companies ranging from startups to Fortune 500s, published three books, and built the Bluetooth Developer Academy.
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Stuck on Something You Cannot See?
Book a scoping call and we will work out whether a Debug Block fits your problem, and what it would take.