On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 05:19, Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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. >
thanks, i will try getting a BLE dongle. lubomir -- _______________________________________________ subsurface mailing list [email protected] http://lists.subsurface-divelog.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/subsurface
