A short range wireless protocol used by various devices, such as cell phones, wireless headsets, mice and keyboards.
Questions tagged [bluetooth]
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How many devices can be hooked up to one PC Bluetooth adapter at a time?
I'd like to buy a bluetooth adapter to hook up game-console controllers to my PC. However, I need to know if I can play 4-player games with 4 controllers using only one adapter, or if I need to buy four.
The Internet is filled with conflicting…
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Can I pair multiple hosts to a single Bluetooth headphones device?
I have a pair of Bluetooth headphones which I'd like to use with my phone and computer. They are currently paired with the computer and are working fine. Is it possible to pair them additionally with my phone, maintaining both pairings, so that I…
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Is bluetooth 4.0 backwards compatible with bluetooth 2.0+EDR?
I have been unable to find an answer for this. The last spec I seem to find that mentions backward compatibility is 2.1.
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Force connect to Bluetooth device
I have a Bluetooth speaker in my house. Myself and my partner periodically connect to it using either our phones (2 × Android) or laptops (1 × MacBook and 1 × laptop PC) to play music whilst at home. As far as I know, it's only possible to have a…
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How can I set Bluetooth connection priority for various devices?
How can I set up Bluetooth devices with a set of connection priority rules, so that they connect to the correct device.
Ideally, my phone(Android) would prefer connection to car > laptop > PC.
My headphones would prefer Laptop > Phone for media…
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Do Bluetooth repeaters exist?
We have two Android phones (Vibrants) and a regular land-line at home. We bought a cordless system that has Bluetooth built-in (Panasonic KX-TGA651) so that we can use the cordless phones to answer our cell phones.
Everything works well. However,…
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100+ bluetooth devices in close proximity? Will there be issues?
I'm evaluating the use of over 100 Bluetooth headsets in a call center environment.
My understanding of Bluetooth.. is that the stream of data is chopped up over 79 bands. So a telephone call can exist over those 79 bands (one at a time) in any…
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how to use bluetooth headset on pc
i have a bluetooth headset for my phone, but use skype quite a lot and was wanting toi know how to use my headset for my pc to make it wireless. i have a bluetooth adaptor for my pc installed, and blue soleil, but it only seems to pick up the phone
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How to directinize bluetooth signal?
I am creating a software. I have this http://estimote.com that is an iBeacon that transmit bluetooth signals. I know that bluetooth is omni directional but can I directinize it to one single direction? If yes, how can I do this?
Thanks
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how can I disable my bluetooth's desire to connect to a wireless keyboard?
How can I get my laptop to stop wanting to connect to an external keyboard? It's like it's fallen in love with this one time when it was connected, and now the builtin keyboard and trackpad don't work because the bluetooth is in an endless circle…
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CMD to start or stop Bluetooth on Windows 10
Here it is my solution to turn bluetooth on/off using cmd:
@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
set "bluetoothStatus="
set "command="
:: Check current Bluetooth status
for /f "tokens=3 delims=: " %%a in ('reg query…
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Would Bluetooth dongles work on my speaker that has USB port?
I'm looking at some USB dongles on eBay, and I was wondering if I was to buy one, i could connect to my speaker which has a USB port, so that I can play music on it from my computer without using an aux cable. Would this work?
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Bluetooth adapter for Sony digital photo frame
Which Bluetooth adapters will work with a Sony DPF-V1000N digital photo frame?
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Bluetooth dongle acting as keyboard?
I've heard that there are certain bluetooth dongles that act as a regular input device, just as if you've connected a regular USB keyboard, instead of just forwarding the bluetooth signal so to speak. I want it so that I can pair with the dongle…
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Multiple Bluetooth dongle?
Can a single computer support 2 Bluetooth dongle to have 10+ functional Slave devices in piconet?
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