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Re: Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB

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Post by FredFS456 »

mmh0000 wrote: post #80
reeddavid wrote: post #78

This solves a huge annoyance I've had: swap a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse between multiple laptops, without manually un0paring / re-pairing. I have a personal "hot desk" at home. I want to be able to plug in any laptop to the large monitor, and have the wireless keyboard/mouse on that desk instantly work. And when I leave the desk with my laptop, I don't want that keyboard/mouse connected anymore. This has been impossib…

All of this is being insanely overcomplicated. Throwing more complexity at a simple problem might be "fun" from a nerd's POV, and, TBH, building this USB device sounds fun. But entirely unneeded while introducing more points of failure. A simple solution to your problem: 1. Get a monitor with a built-in USB hub (nearly all of them?). Consider getting a USB-C monitor to reduce the number of cables to 1. 2. Don't use B…

A cheap USB switch would also work, that would reduce the switching to switching monitor inputs and pressing the button the USB switch

Re: Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB

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Post by bahaaador »

reeddavid wrote: post #78

This solves a huge annoyance I've had: swap a Bluetooth keyboard/mouse between multiple laptops, without manually un0paring / re-pairing. I have a personal "hot desk" at home. I want to be able to plug in any laptop to the large monitor, and have the wireless keyboard/mouse on that desk instantly work. And when I leave the desk with my laptop, I don't want that keyboard/mouse connected anymore. This has been impossib…

My pleasure, @reeddavid! I’m excited that you might find a use for it. Just a quick note: you may need an external power source for the RPi if you’re switching between devices frequently.

One popular request I’ve received is for certain RPi models (those with multiple USB ports as host) to act as a KVM, allowing them to serve as a USB host for multiple PCs simultaneously with easy switching—perhaps through shortcuts or physical buttons on the RPi. I’ll need to give it more thought, but it seems feasible with minimal changes. I already have some ideas for better state management for the devices!

Re: Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

bongodongobob wrote: post #54
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #35

> This project was born out of a desire to help a friend who couldn't use his favorite Bluetooth mouse and keyboard due to Bluetooth being disabled on his work laptop. Protip: If their company's IT section is like the one at my old company, they are quite unlikely to like this solution, either. But it's very clever. Kudos.

No, it's just a USB device at that point. Unless they are against USB mice and keyboards, it's fine.

Our IT would not allow any USB that wasn't purchased through them, to be connected to the machine.

This was especially true for memory sticks, but keyboards, and even bus-powered things like fans (or nerf turrets) would get banned.

They had the power to get you fired, if you crossed them.

They did not like my team, because we were the only ones in the building, that knew what bullshitters they were.

Re: Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB

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Post by baq »

76SlashDolphin wrote: post #47

Ooh, one thing that can be very useful for this is sending USB wakeup packets. I have an HTPC under my TV and game controllers (PS4, Xbox) at my coffee table and there is no way to wake up the PC with those over Bluetooth so I have to keep it on and idling at all times, wasting electricity.

If you have a wired connection to the box you should be able to use wake on lan from a phone (this is what I used to do, now homeassistant took over this responsibility).

Re: Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB

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Post by Havoc »

bahaaador wrote: post #84
Havoc wrote: post #79

Does this support headphones/audio too?

Not at the moment, I might look into it as I've received the request a few times now. So stay tuned! :)

Thank you! Currently fight (and losing) a battle with Sony headphones on windows & LDAC protocol

Re: Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

Arcanum-XIII wrote: post #44
a1o wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

IT departments that are too restrictive will soon find that people have a parallel world executing in Excel sheets and using some external messaging app to keep the company operations running despite IT efforts to ensure it doesn't - I mean to ensure it is "secure"...

My CTO is quite adamant that he hates shadow IT. Especially those with mac, full of... well software used by those artsy employees. Or with strange software not validated by the IT. Well. Other departments ask for equipment, but only hear no back. Management product like Monday? No. Dedicated solution for jobs they don't understand? Hell no! It's tough to be part of this. I know security is hard. Budget limit stuff.…

We wrote optimized C++ software.

We had all kinds of scary tech, like custom-compiled metrics software from Intel.

They insisted that all of our machines run their malwa- er, security software.

It would totally screw up our measurements.

Re: Show HN: Bluetooth USB Peripheral Relay – Bridge Bluetooth Devices to USB

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY »

atoav wrote: post #67
Arcanum-XIII wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My CTO is quite adamant that he hates shadow IT. Especially those with mac, full of... well software used by those artsy employees. Or with strange software not validated by the IT. Well. Other departments ask for equipment, but only hear no back. Management product like Monday? No. Dedicated solution for jobs they don't understand? Hell no! It's tough to be part of this. I know security is hard. Budget limit stuff.…

As someone who has worked in IT support: The problem is that people using that shadow IT will come running when they produce real tangible damage, because they lose data or some totally ridculous workflow stops working and you now have to reverse engineer some undocumented database format to extract at least the most urgent data. I am not a fan of IT GESTAPO, and everything should be measured, butbif I learned one th…

This is true. I suspect that a lot of these massive breaches, was because some less-technical person loaded the customer data onto an unsecured AWS instance, while they were running measurements on it.
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