Date: 2/11/2013 16:25:48
From: Bubblecar
ID: 423797
Subject: Bluetooth Question

This new pooter has Bluetooth but I don’t know anything about it, except that you can buy portable wireless Bluetooth speakers. Would I be able to play music on my PC here in the pooter room and hear it through a speaker on my garden table, about 25 metres away?

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Date: 2/11/2013 16:27:21
From: Stealth
ID: 423798
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

Bluetooth has a claimed range of around 5m.

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Date: 2/11/2013 16:31:07
From: Bubblecar
ID: 423800
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

All the bluetooth speakers I’ve looked at so far on eBay claim a puny 10 metres. 5 metres is even more disappointing.

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Date: 2/11/2013 16:32:02
From: Stealth
ID: 423801
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

5m sghould be reliable, beyond that may work if conditions are just right.

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Date: 2/11/2013 16:34:43
From: Bubblecar
ID: 423804
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

Stealth said:


5m sghould be reliable, beyond that may work if conditions are just right.

Not much use then. I suppose I should just get a portable mp3 player and transfer selected music from the pooter.

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Date: 2/11/2013 16:37:51
From: Obviousman
ID: 423806
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

What is your situation? Thanks to advice from the Forum, I ended up getting a small FM transmitter that took my music output from the PC / laptop and put it on an FM frequency of my choosing. It has a claimed range of 15m but I think it is better than that, especially if there are no attenuating materials between the transmitter and receiver.

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Date: 2/11/2013 16:43:41
From: Bubblecar
ID: 423809
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

There’s just the one wooden window wall (mostly glass), lawn and a few shrubs between here and the garden table 25 metres away. I don’t want to move it nearer ‘cos I like where it’s currently nestled. And moving the house sounds like hard work.

I think just getting a nice outdoor stereo mp3 player is probably the simplest solution :)

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Date: 2/11/2013 16:46:10
From: roughbarked
ID: 423810
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

What’s wrong with ramping the amp up and pointing the speakers at your windows?

My neighbours haven’t complained yet.
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Date: 2/11/2013 16:47:48
From: roughbarked
ID: 423811
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

My back fence is almost 60 m away from the back door.

Mind, I can only do it when she who must save her ears is not at home.

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Date: 2/11/2013 16:50:16
From: Bubblecar
ID: 423812
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

roughbarked said:


What’s wrong with ramping the amp up and pointing the speakers at your windows?

My neighbours haven’t complained yet.

I’ll be listening to classical music at a civilised volume.

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Date: 2/11/2013 16:51:42
From: roughbarked
ID: 423814
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

Bubblecar said:


roughbarked said:

What’s wrong with ramping the amp up and pointing the speakers at your windows?

My neighbours haven’t complained yet.

I’ll be listening to classical music at a civilised volume.

Fairy nuff.

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Date: 2/11/2013 16:52:23
From: Wocky
ID: 423815
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

Bubblecar said:

I’ll be listening to classical music at a civilised volume.

But civilised volume for some classical music (like Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture) is about 110dB.

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Date: 2/11/2013 16:54:42
From: stumpy_seahorse
ID: 423816
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

Wocky said:


Bubblecar said:

I’ll be listening to classical music at a civilised volume.

But civilised volume for some classical music (like Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture) is about 110dB.

130 when the homemade pyrotechnics go off during the appropriate bits…

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Date: 2/11/2013 17:04:30
From: Obviousman
ID: 423820
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

Bubblecar said:


There’s just the one wooden window wall (mostly glass), lawn and a few shrubs between here and the garden table 25 metres away. I don’t want to move it nearer ‘cos I like where it’s currently nestled. And moving the house sounds like hard work.

I think just getting a nice outdoor stereo mp3 player is probably the simplest solution :)

They are certainly cheap enough.

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Date: 2/11/2013 17:41:37
From: transition
ID: 423867
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

It’d be very low power RF, you can probably get the RF power spec for bluetooth on Wiki.

You need more a low power FM transmitter, though the typical legal ones are only good to about 11metres maybe that use the BA1404 chip and variants – you use an standard FM radio receiver.

There’s other options too no doubt.

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Date: 2/11/2013 17:52:42
From: Peak Warming Man
ID: 423871
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

I think you should run a cord out to your garden, that way you wont propagate toxic radio waves that pollute the environment and cause cancer in small children and animals.

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Date: 2/11/2013 17:54:03
From: Bubblecar
ID: 423872
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

>you use an standard FM radio receiver.

…in which I might as well just get a good portable radio/mp3/CD player anyway :)

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Date: 2/11/2013 17:54:07
From: roughbarked
ID: 423873
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

Peak Warming Man said:


I think you should run a cord out to your garden, that way you wont propagate toxic radio waves that pollute the environment and cause cancer in small children and animals.

Doesn’t the insulation help?

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Date: 2/11/2013 17:55:33
From: roughbarked
ID: 423874
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

Bubblecar said:


>you use an standard FM radio receiver.

…in which I might as well just get a good portable radio/mp3/CD player anyway :)

Yep. Though if free of interference the FM transmitter is fine, you’ll still need the MP3 player

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Date: 2/11/2013 17:56:31
From: Bubblecar
ID: 423875
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

Peak Warming Man said:


I think you should run a cord out to your garden, that way you wont propagate toxic radio waves that pollute the environment and cause cancer in small children and animals.

Well a 25 metre extension cord is cheaper than batteries in the long run.

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Date: 2/11/2013 17:56:47
From: Bubblecar
ID: 423876
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

Bubblecar said:


>you use an standard FM radio receiver.

…in which I might as well just get a good portable radio/mp3/CD player anyway :)

….case. In which case.

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Date: 2/11/2013 17:57:14
From: roughbarked
ID: 423877
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

Bubblecar said:


Peak Warming Man said:

I think you should run a cord out to your garden, that way you wont propagate toxic radio waves that pollute the environment and cause cancer in small children and animals.

Well a 25 metre extension cord is cheaper than batteries in the long run.

Nothing is cheap about batteries.

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Date: 2/11/2013 17:58:09
From: roughbarked
ID: 423878
Subject: re: Bluetooth Question

roughbarked said:

Nothing is cheap about batteries.

er.. their length of output per dollar is..

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