Can I connect a Bluetooth adapter?

[HansPL]

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

Thanks,

HansPL

[antinode · Accepted solution]

> [...] 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.

[antinode]

> [...] 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]

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]

> 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.

[HansPL]

Bluetouth source: PC (Win 7) with Bluetooth transmitter.

Well, not easy to see where the router comes in: it is located higher than the PC and covers more house area, so I thought I would put a USB Bluetooth USB stick in the router rather than in the PC. But I will try the PC and see how it works.

Hans L

[antinode · Accepted solution]

> [...] 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.

[michaelkenward]

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@HansPL wrote:

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

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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]

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