site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: bluetooth-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) Daniel, Dave Boydston 805.964.8883 x115 866.546.4523 FAX Serialio.com - Bringing your bright ideas to Life Hi Tim, --Daniel On Oct 31, 2007, at 3:59 PM, Tim Hewett wrote: Daniel, Tim. On 31 Oct 2007, at 19:01, bluetooth-dev-request@lists.apple.com wrote: Can a mac have more than one bluetooth device? I tried plugging in a dongle, and I believe what happened was that the dongle replaced the builtin bluetooth device. Also the api for finding out info about the bluetooth device seems to only support one device. Is there a definitive answer? _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Bluetooth-dev mailing list (Bluetooth-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/bluetooth-dev/daveb%40serialio.com This email sent to daveb@serialio.com _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Bluetooth-dev mailing list (Bluetooth-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/bluetooth-dev/site_archiver%40lists.a... Assuming its an OS X supported dongle it will take BT control from internal Mac BT. Daniel Birns wrote: Thanks for the feedback. The question is not one of having benefit. Here's the question: Today I bought a mouse that has a usb-bt dongle in the box. Say I'm a naive user. I put it on my computer, not knowing anything. What's going to happen? Actually I'm going to find out soon, because I'm going to try it! I don't expect there would be any benefit of having more than one Bluetooth interface active, it may make things worse as they may interfere with each other. I say that on the basis that all Bluetooth comms occur in the same frequency band, with frequency hopping used to help reduce collisions between independent devices. The only benefit I could see is when the devices are different classes, e.g. using a class 1 device for services which need greater range, but a lower power one for short range things like keyboard and mouse. This would be a conscientious way to reduce your interference impact on your neighbours. --Daniel This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com