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?
Bluetooth has a claimed range of around 5m.
All the bluetooth speakers I’ve looked at so far on eBay claim a puny 10 metres. 5 metres is even more disappointing.
5m sghould be reliable, beyond that may work if conditions are just right.
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.
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.
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 :)
What’s wrong with ramping the amp up and pointing the speakers at your windows?
My neighbours haven’t complained yet.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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
>you use an standard FM radio receiver.
…in which I might as well just get a good portable radio/mp3/CD player anyway :)
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?
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
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.
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.
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.
roughbarked said:
Nothing is cheap about batteries.
er.. their length of output per dollar is..