On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 6:33 PM Lubomir I. Ivanov <[email protected]> wrote: > > the solution that the user suggests is to get a BLE dongle. not a good > option for the end user.
Actually, it's probably a reasonable option. iirc, the Shearwater actually *came* with a dongle, exactly because Windows bluetooth is so flaky. I suspect Dirk just didn't think to bring it with him. See for example https://www.shearwater.com/bluetooth-quick-start/ also, bluetooth dongles are actually pretty cheap. You can find ones that do BLE for $6.99 on Amazon, and a few slightly better ones for not much more (I have the Plugable one, for example, which sells for $12.95). The biggest problem is to make sure the dongle really does BLE and has a good driver, because there are some low-end things that only do traditional BT, and apparently a number of garbage things that have bad drivers. Also, range for the dongles seems to be pretty pitiful. But for people with thousand-dollar dive computers that do bluetooth, having to buy a $10 dongle is probably pretty acceptable. Linus _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
