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Using Orbi as a Bluetooth extender
It would be great to be able to use the Orbi built in Bluetooth radios to extend bluetooth reach throughout a home.
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What built-in Bluetooth radios? I'm not aware of any.
Besides that, Bluetooth is quite necessarily point-to-point, from a security perspective.
Rodney
- The Orbi has a Bluetooth Radio. If you can use those radios as Bluetooth extenders it would help with home automation devices (they just need to be close to an orbi pod.
If you're referring to the SmallNetBuilder teardown, they were wrong. Yes, it's on the SoC, but not enabled, and you certainly can't use it with a phone app (or anything else) for setup...that's done entirely via web UI.
Even if you could somehow enable the radio, you *still* can't extend with it.
Rodney