Hello!
Anybody knows if its possible to interface multiple bluetooth dongles with Bluez? I would like to get pass the maximum 7 connections per dongle limitation of Bluetooth by installing more than one bluetooth dongle to a computer and thus increasing the number of connections available.
Anybody have experience developing such applications?
Thanks!
Regards
Shaun
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thanks for the replies guys! i'll try it out and post my experience here
"Williams, Richard" <[email protected]> wrote: Shaun,
> Anybody knows if its possible to interface multiple bluetooth dongles with Bluez?
> I would like to get pass the maximum 7 connections per dongle limitation of Bluetooth
> by installing more than one bluetooth dongle to a computer and thus increasing the
> number of connections available.
>
> Anybody have experience developing such applications?
>
This works fine, but make sure you have the latest Bluez libs. And make sure you have a
kernel at least 2.6.20 vintage. If not, then when you're running two simultaneous commands to
two different Bluetooth devices, you may get a kernel oops.
Otherwise, its easy enough to write a multi-threaded application that addresses multiple dongles.
And it works very well.
-Rich
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Shaun,
> Anybody knows if its possible to interface multiple bluetooth dongles
with Bluez?
> I would like to get pass the maximum 7 connections per dongle
limitation of Bluetooth
> by installing more than one bluetooth dongle to a computer and thus
increasing the
> number of connections available.
>
> Anybody have experience developing such applications?
>
This works fine, but make sure you have the latest Bluez libs. And make
sure you have a
kernel at least 2.6.20 vintage. If not, then when you're running two
simultaneous commands to
two different Bluetooth devices, you may get a kernel oops.
Otherwise, its easy enough to write a multi-threaded application that
addresses multiple dongles.
And it works very well.
-Rich
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Hi Shaun,
> Anybody knows if its possible to interface multiple bluetooth dongles
> with Bluez? I would like to get pass the maximum 7 connections per
> dongle limitation of Bluetooth by installing more than one bluetooth
> dongle to a computer and thus increasing the number of connections
> available.
you can do that. It simply works. There is a limit of 16 adapters per
host, but that can be changed with a simple recompilation of the
Bluetooth library.
Regards
Marcel
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