Using Orbi as a Bluetooth extender

[NorbM]

It would be great to be able to use the Orbi built in Bluetooth radios to extend bluetooth reach throughout a home.

[rhester72]

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

[NorbM]

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.

[rhester72]

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