Correct, there's no technical reason anyone couldn't make a class 1 bluetooth dongle that would work with a bluetooth keyboard, but I haven't ever seen one. I did have one that work with a bluetooth pair of headpones and an audio receiver though, but these were packaged together, and I never looked into whether I could make this work for a bluetooth keyboard or not.
I did roughly what you did at one time, with an RF wireless keyboard and an RF wireless pair of headphones, but I never took it to the extreme you're doing. I did briefly look into switching over to bluetooth for both the keyboard and headphones, like you're doing, but I didn't look very hard, and I never did find anything for the keyboard. I ended up giving up on this idea when I bought myself a netbook, which I can now carry around the house. The netbook has it's own set of pros and cons though, as you can well imagine. On 21/07/11 07:03, Lee Mounger wrote: > Hi Listers, > > A few years ago, I decided that since I was using Jaws and had no need for > the screen, why should I have to be tied to the computer to use the computer. > Here's what I did. I connected an FM transmitter to the sound card of my > computer and now use a small FM radio or my Sansa mp3 player which is tiny > and equipped with FM to hear Jaws or anything else from the sound card. Then > I bought an RF wireless keyboard with a range of a hundred feet or so. The > keyboard is small and light and with a transmitter built in. The keyboard's > receiver plugs into the USB port of my computer. With this combination, for > probably the last five years, unless I have to load a disc or do something > physical on the computer, I compute wherever I want from bed, to the living > room, to the kitchen, etc. > > My only problem is that because it's an RF keyboard, I sometimes have to > physically adjust the keyboard receiver's little antenna at the computer > depending on where I am in the house. So here's my question. I haven't done > anything with Bluetooth and I know some of you are much more knowledgeable > about this technology. Is anyone doing the same thing I'm doing with > Bluetooth? I think I need a longer range, Class 1, wireless Bluetooth > keyboard. Does anyone know where I could buy such an animal? There seem to > be plenty of infrared or short-range wireless keyboards out there but the > first question from well-meaning sighted computer people is, "why would you > want a wireless keyboard anywhere too far to see the computer screen," > <grin>. Of course the answer is that you probably wouldn't unless you were a > visually impaired person using a screen reader so it's kind of a niche > problem. Any help and advice would be greatly appreciated. > > Lee Mounger' > > To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: > pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org -- Christopher (CJ) chalt...@gmail.com To unsubscribe from this list, send a blank email to: pc-audio-unsubscr...@pc-audio.org
