[TriLUG] BlueTooth dongle purchase

[Len Boyle]

Not having this hardware, means that I have to assume a few things. 

The benefits seem to be to talk to devices. 
Could be a keyboard, mouse other input/output devices for people.

Could be to pass data to and from an android device.  The google i/o talks included Bluetooth. I was not there, they just have the talks available for viewing.

Maybe some form of near field comm?

At 300m could one use this for home automation?







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From: trilug-bounces at trilug.org [mailto:trilug-bounces at trilug.org] On Behalf Of Carl Crider
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2012 1:39 PM
To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] BlueTooth dongle purchase

Very interested in hearing real benefits to this myself.



On Fri, Aug 10, 2012 at 1:26 PM, Steve Litt <slitt at troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> What would be the benefit of having bluetooth on a computer? What 
> could you do with it?
>
> Thanks
>
> SteveT
>
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 07:34:14 -0700 (PDT), Joseph Mack NA3T said:
>> For the BlueTooth w/s on 15 Sep
>>
>> http://trilug.org/2012-09-bluetooth
>>
>> participants can purchase a bluetooth dongle for about $40 (link on 
>> announcment page).
>>
>> Looking into this, there's a UD100 and a UD100-G03
>>
>> http://www.neteon.net/products/serial/serial-to-wireless/bluetooth-se
>> rial-adapter/accessories/parani-ud100.html
>>
>> From the specs and photos, they look identical. I expect none of us 
>> on this list know the difference. I've asked Bill and Alan to see if 
>> the presenter can tell us.
>>
>> The device has a range of 300m. There is a R-SMA connector on the 
>> device. The external antennae available are a 5dbi dipole for <$10 
>> and a 9dbi patch for $54. Bang for buck the 5dbi dipole seems worth 
>> having.
>>
>> I've also asked Bill and Alan to see what the presenter thinks of the 
>> antennas.
>>
>> The presenter gave a talk at CarolinaCon this year. I remember the 
>> BlueTooth talk as the best technical talk. At the time I thought this 
>> is too bad, since I don't use BlueTooth. The reason I don't use 
>> BlueTooth is because I couldn't get it working in Linux a couple of 
>> years ago, while it worked out of the box with Windows. As the 
>> speaker at CarolinaCon described, the problem I had was that I only 
>> had about half of the code needed to get BlueTooth working, and the 
>> speaker described the considerable trouble he had to locate the 
>> required code from disparate sources, and get it to work for himself.
>>
>> I've asked Bill and Alan to see if they can get a list of the require 
>> code and install instructions, from the speaker, before the talk/w-s, 
>> so we're not starting from 0 when we arrive with our dongles, and 
>> have to sort everything out on the day. I'd rather have something 
>> working before I arrive, than just appear with my box of bits, as 
>> they were delivered by FedEx.
>>
>> Joe
>>
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