Using multiple BT adapters on one machine?

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Daniel

Hi all,

First, sorry for cross-posting but i didn't know where to post this.

I need to use more than one Bluetooth adapter on a single Windows
machine. Seeing how this is handled by the MS and Widcomm stacks i get
the impression that this is not supported by BT generally.

Is there a way to work around this limitation?

thanks a lot,
Daniel
 
Why do you need more than one Bluetooth adapter? Most Widcomm (Broadcom)
adapters handle 7 devices, including audio.
 
Yves Leclerc said:
Why do you need more than one Bluetooth adapter? Most Widcomm (Broadcom)
adapters handle 7 devices, including audio.
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They could be physically separated. Not every bluetooth adapter is embedded
in a notebook computer, many are USB and can be up to something like 10
meters from the USB root hub.
 
Daniel said:
I need to use more than one Bluetooth adapter on a single Windows
machine. Seeing how this is handled by the MS and Widcomm stacks i get
the impression that this is not supported by BT generally.
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This is limitation of the MS & Widcomm driver.
You can try connecting a second adapter to a Vmware
virual machine.

--PA
 
This is limitation of the MS & Widcomm driver.
You can try connecting a second adapter to a Vmware
virual machine.
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I even tried the BlueSoleil stack and it also has the same restriction
which gives me the impression that this is part of the Bluetooth
concept rather than a missing feature of those stacks (all stacks!).

I actually tried the VMWare thing already and it seems to work fine.
VMWare lets the client OS take complete control over specific USB
devices which is exactly what I needed.

Since people asked why I need this: We want to cover many rooms with
BT, but the mobile client device is not capable of the PAN profile. If
it was we'd buy BT access points, but i don't want to implement 3
missing layers (BNEP, IP, TCP) of the BT stack...

So i'll probably go for the VMWare idea for now and maybe switch to
small Linux boxes (WiFi APs or NASs with Linux support) later...

thanks for the comments,
Daniel
 
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