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I'd like to try it again (it's been years) but unfortunately I can't live without Bluetooth.

SoftTalker 11mo ago
Yeah there are certain compromises you have to make. Mainstream hardware generally works, but Bluetooth and Nvidia GPUs are two possibly big exceptions depending on your needs. If the driver source is not freely available and it can't be reverse-engineered (or no developer is interested in working on it) then it probably isn't supported.
mikem170 11mo ago
I use a bluetooth usb dongle for audio with my openbsd laptop. It's very small and has a single button on the end for pairing, something like the creative bt-w3 [1]. You want to avoid something that won't work without windows drivers. The os sees it as a separate audio device, doesn't care that it is bluetooth, and can be set to switch audio playback between the internal sound and the dongle automagically. [1] https://xosc.org/bluetooth.html https://xosc.org/bluetooth.html
- rootnod3 11mo ago
  I am just missing a similar dongle to hook up my ZMK split keyboards to my OpenBSD systems.
- guerrilla 11mo ago
  Doesn't that mean that there's always a delay in the audio since it doesn't know to buffer slightly? (I'm not sure how it works on Linux today, but it didn't used to work well a long time ago for that very reason.)
  - mikem170 11mo ago
    I assume you were talking about audio/video sync? I used to use mine to mostly listen to music, audio only. But I still have a creative bt-w2 audio dongle, and was curious, so I gave it a try, using mvp to watch a yt-dlp mp4, showing someone talking on camera. The bluetooth speaker was 3 meters away from my laptop. No tweaks. It looked good, I was pleasantly surprised. It definitely had better sync than I've seen on some badly compressed cable tv content. I wasn't familiar with how bluetooth buffering used to be, but I can believe it's caused problems. I've noticed sometimes when people are using bluetooth on their phones.
    - guerrilla 11mo ago
      Yes, that's what I meant. Thank you for testing this. I appreciate it. So, Creative bt-w2. Nice to see that Creative's still got the mojo.

Yeah there are certain compromises you have to make. Mainstream hardware generally works, but Bluetooth and Nvidia GPUs are two possibly big exceptions depending on your needs. If the driver source is not freely available and it can't be reverse-engineered (or no developer is interested in working on it) then it probably isn't supported.

mikem170 11mo ago

I use a bluetooth usb dongle for audio with my openbsd laptop. It's very small and has a single button on the end for pairing, something like the creative bt-w3 [1]. You want to avoid something that won't work without windows drivers. The os sees it as a separate audio device, doesn't care that it is bluetooth, and can be set to switch audio playback between the internal sound and the dongle automagically. [1] https://xosc.org/bluetooth.html https://xosc.org/bluetooth.html

rootnod3 11mo ago
I am just missing a similar dongle to hook up my ZMK split keyboards to my OpenBSD systems.
guerrilla 11mo ago
Doesn't that mean that there's always a delay in the audio since it doesn't know to buffer slightly? (I'm not sure how it works on Linux today, but it didn't used to work well a long time ago for that very reason.)
- mikem170 11mo ago
  I assume you were talking about audio/video sync? I used to use mine to mostly listen to music, audio only. But I still have a creative bt-w2 audio dongle, and was curious, so I gave it a try, using mvp to watch a yt-dlp mp4, showing someone talking on camera. The bluetooth speaker was 3 meters away from my laptop. No tweaks. It looked good, I was pleasantly surprised. It definitely had better sync than I've seen on some badly compressed cable tv content. I wasn't familiar with how bluetooth buffering used to be, but I can believe it's caused problems. I've noticed sometimes when people are using bluetooth on their phones.
  - guerrilla 11mo ago
    Yes, that's what I meant. Thank you for testing this. I appreciate it. So, Creative bt-w2. Nice to see that Creative's still got the mojo.