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TI CC2531 USB dongle

HARDWARE
Texas Instruments · Zigbee · 802.15.4
Project site ↗

Cheap TI CC2531 USB dongle flashed with packet-sniffer firmware — a 2.4 GHz 802.15.4 capture-only radio (no injection). Bridged to Wireshark by whsniff.

COMPATIBLE SOFTWARE & PROJECTS

whsniff SOFTWARE homewsn repo ↗

Command-line utility that interfaces a TI CC2531 USB dongle with Wireshark to capture and display IEEE 802.15.4 traffic at 2.4 GHz — pipe its output into Wireshark (or save a PCAP) for Zigbee dissection. A cheap, simple capture path when you have a CC2531.

Kismet SOFTWARE Kismet Wireless repo ↗

Passive wireless detector, sniffer and wardriving tool. Channel-hops to log every AP, client and SSID (with GPS) and captures to pcapng without ever transmitting — the reference quiet survey/capture tool. Beyond Wi-Fi it has the widest 802.15.4/Zigbee datasource support of any tool here: a dedicated CatSniffer v3 Zigbee source (channels 12–26) plus nRF52840, CC2531, RZUSBstick, nRF51822 and NXP KW41Z (Kismet git / 2025-10+ releases).

USED IN THE WAYFINDER

Zigbee / 802.15.4 · SPZigbee / 802.15.4 · LL