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Yeah. Multipoint connection has been a part of the Bluetooth spec since 4.0. Compatible devices will connect to anything available nearby and negotiate audio to
by smoldesu 3y ago
Yeah. Multipoint connection has been a part of the Bluetooth spec since 4.0. Compatible devices will connect to anything available nearby and negotiate audio to whichever device pressed 'play' last. No iCloud mumbo-jumbo required, it was smoother than the Airpods experience when I was using it.
- scarface_74 3y agoAnd how many “multipoint” devices support an unlimited number of devices? I currently have 2 AppleTVs, a MacBook, iPad, an iPhone and an Apple Watch all paired to my AirPods . What’s the pairing process like? Mine is just - sign into iCloud and my AirPods show up.
- vetinari 3y agoI have JBL headphones currently paired with Samsung phone, tablet, Intel NUC running Ubuntu and MacBook Pro running macOS. No problem, no cloud login necessary.
- scarface_74 3y agoThat’s still less than the 6 devices I have..
- smoldesu 3y agoNext you're going to ask how high into the air I can piss?
- scarface_74 3y agoNo, it’s still a substandard “solution” and not exactly a great argument. I told you the devices I use with my AirPods.
- donkeybeer 3y agoAnd how is he supposed to tell how it will work with your devices? He already said examples of how many devices he has and that it works with, and you did the same for yours. You haven't presented any standard spec and pointed to the part where the spec states the figure that lists the max number of devices. He shared some spec, I am sure you could find some number there.
- scarface_74 3y agoBecause I know how to Google “how many devices does the JBL headphones support”
- donkeybeer 3y agoApparently 8 with some gotchas? But in principle this should not be gated to a hardware, what is stopping one from making a bluetooth device that muxes all the signals and sends it to the audio device? Is there any reason thats not happening other than greed of the headphone makers to try to upsell "higher models"?
- scarface_74 3y ago“8 with some gotchas”. That’s a rousing endorsement of open standards.
- donkeybeer 3y agoIts not open enough. If it was open enough I could feed it any signal I want into the audio interface, including from any bluetooth device to MUX them how I want.
- smoldesu 3y agoYou have no idea what you're talking about. 1. Your Bluetooth radio determines how many simultaneous connections you get. It is at least 2 on Bluetooth 4.0+. 2. You are conflating cloud pairing (Apple's feature) with multipoint pairing (everyone's feature). They coexist. 3. 8 devices is generally the hard limit on all consumer Bluetooth radios, from the iPhone to Nintendo Switch.