{"id":177,"date":"2009-01-25T12:11:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T17:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/private\/wordpress\/?p=177"},"modified":"2021-07-10T20:19:25","modified_gmt":"2021-07-11T00:19:25","slug":"tiny-bluetooth-dongle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/tiny-bluetooth-dongle\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Bluetooth dongle"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4165,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.windracer.net\\\/photos\\\/galleries\\\/misc\\\/hardware\\\/eeepc\\\/IMG_0549.JPG&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260211044520\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.windracer.net\\\/photos\\\/galleries\\\/misc\\\/hardware\\\/eeepc\\\/IMG_0549.JPG&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-02 17:58:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 16:20:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 16:20:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:4166,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.windracer.net\\\/photos\\\/galleries\\\/misc\\\/hardware\\\/eeepc\\\/IMG_0553.JPG&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260211044551\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.windracer.net\\\/photos\\\/galleries\\\/misc\\\/hardware\\\/eeepc\\\/IMG_0553.JPG&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/i-love-slickdealsnet\/\">$3<\/a> tiny Bluetooth adapter for my Eee PC finally arrived! I guess I didn&#8217;t realize it was coming from Hong Kong directly to me, which is why it took 10 days. I love the typos on the packaging due to translation. Apparently this will make a PC &#8220;Bluelooth&#8221; enabled is &#8220;supporting vioce data&#8221; as well. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a lot smaller than my old Kensington Bluetooth adapter, as I&#8217;d hoped:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/photos\/galleries\/misc\/hardware\/eeepc\/IMG_0549.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 326px; height: 244px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/photos\/galleries\/misc\/hardware\/eeepc\/IMG_0549.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>My only complaint is that it doesn&#8217;t connect flush with the side of my Eee PC. The metal plug part is a little too long, so it sticks out a little further than I like:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/photos\/galleries\/misc\/hardware\/eeepc\/IMG_0553.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 334px; height: 250px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/photos\/galleries\/misc\/hardware\/eeepc\/IMG_0553.JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>But it&#8217;s still better than what I had. Now I can put my Eee PC into its neoprene slipcover without having to remove the dongle.<\/p>\n<p>I had a little trouble re-pairing the new device to my Treo. I spent about an hour fiddling with scripts and PINs and hcitool\/hciconfig commands and then finally installed <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210227153016\/http:\/\/www.ubuntugeek.com\/eee-control-utility-for-controlling-eee-pc-hardware.html\">eee-control<\/a>. After that, it was a snap and I&#8217;m able to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/2008\/06\/tethering-the-treo-680-and-eee-pc\/\">tether<\/a> my Eee to my Treo again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The $3 tiny Bluetooth adapter for my Eee PC finally arrived! I guess I didn&#8217;t realize it was coming from Hong Kong directly to me, which is why it took 10 days. I love the typos on the packaging due to translation. Apparently this will make a PC &#8220;Bluelooth&#8221; enabled is &#8220;supporting vioce data&#8221; as &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/2009\/01\/tiny-bluetooth-dongle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading &lsquo;Tiny Bluetooth dongle&rsquo; &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[100,4],"tags":[14,23,28],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","category-tech","tag-eeepc","tag-mobile","tag-treo"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.windracer.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}