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HansPL
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Dec 23, 2017
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Can I connect a Bluetooth adapter?

I have Genie R6400, and I wonder if I can put a Bluetooth adapter into one of the two USB ports?

Thanks,

HansPL

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  • antinode's avatar
    antinode
    Dec 24, 2017

    > [...] I thought I would put a USB Bluetooth USB stick in the router
    > rather than in the PC.

       This stuff isn't magic.  Mating connectors is not the only
    requirement.  You can't plug a USB keyboard into the router, and expect
    the PC to be able to use it.  If you want to add Bluetooth capability to
    the PC, then you should connect the USB-Bluetooth adapter to the PC, not
    to some other device.


    > [...] covers more house area, [...]

       A Web search for keywords like, say:

          Bluetooth range

    might be interesting/informative.

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  • antinode's avatar
    antinode
    Guru
    Dec 23, 2017

    > [...] I wonder if I can put a Bluetooth adapter into one of the two
    > USB ports?

       Sure, but I doubt that the router has any software which would know
    what to do with it.

       Why?  Is there some actual problem which you are trying to solve?

    • HansPL's avatar
      HansPL
      Tutor
      Dec 23, 2017

      The "problem": I have a Bluetooth speaker and TuneinRadio app on my iPhone. So I thought I would add another Bluetooth source, namely my PC, and play Internet radio station from the it directly to the speaker, instead from my iPhone.

       

      Hans L

      • antinode's avatar
        antinode
        Guru
        Dec 23, 2017

        > I have a Bluetooth speaker and TuneinRadio app on my iPhone.

           Ok.  I can believe that an iPhone has Bluetooth capability, and so it
        can link to a Bluetooth speaker.

        > So I thought I would add another Bluetooth source, namely my PC,

           I don't know what a "Bluetooth source" means to you.

        > and play Internet radio station from the it directly to the speaker,
        > instead from my iPhone.

           I can imagine attaching a USB-connected Bluetooth interface to your
        (unspecified) "my PC" (some Windows system?), and using that to link to
        your Bluetooth speaker.

           What's unclear (to me) is how the router enters into this picture.

  • michaelkenward's avatar
    michaelkenward
    Guru
    Dec 24, 2017
    HansPL wrote:

    .... I wonder if I can put a Bluetooth adapter into one of the two USB ports?


    No. The USB ports do storage and nothing else.

     

    To work on your PC, the adapter needs "drivers" that tell the hardware how to interact. The router doesn't have that ability.

     

     

    • HansPL's avatar
      HansPL
      Tutor
      Dec 24, 2017

      Thanks to everybody for your input and help. I will attach Bluetooth USB stick to my computer and see how it works.

       

      Regards,

       

      Hans L