But… what is the difference between using USB or Midi dongle? I bought the MS1 with Chicolate but actually I have connected the footswitch to Dwarf with usb cable.
So I don’t understand if there is a real difference…
@SrMouraSilva … do you have news about you plugins? I know this us offtopic …
Hello, @Rino2
I think that there isn’t any difference. I prefer to use with dongle but, yesterday, for example, I forgot it, them I used the USB cable.
Maybe the Power consumption with USB can be bigger compared with the dongle. But it is just a possibility, I’m not sure about it. And it will not interfere you unless if you want to use a lot of USB things on your Device.
At my part I think that they are ok. They maybe need a fine tuning, but I will discover this with your feedback. Let’s stay connected with Mod news. The Mod team are currently with a lot of work related to Expression pedal and AIDA-X.
Something that I would like to know is if it’s possible to connect two Chocolates into a single dongle. Probably there isn’t. 
I am under impression that all these M-Vave devices are able to work only with other one device at a time. A least my observations meet this statement.
I have three M-vave devices currently - usb dongle, chocolate, and a DIN midi dongle. When you turn on any two of these they automatically connect each other, and the third device after turning on keeps searching, unable to find a pair. No connection configuration software is available, so basically it behaves as one to one connection to the first available another free device and there is nothing you can do with that.
Most probably it is assumed that if you want to use more than one chocolate in one room, your use case is expected to have two dongles and two chocolates, and due to the lack of configuration utilities “who connects who” can be defined only by the order of turning on the devices to pair each other. and that’s requires first dongle to be “busy” and refuse new connections when enabling second chocolate. Also, one-to-one connection is just easier/cheaper to implement, and we are speaking about dirt-cheap devices from china here.
Hello Jon!
I got the TP link dongle from the Wiki page and it connects to my tablet BUT it will only connect if I turn off WiFi…?
So how do I open the GUI without WiFi…???
Please help.
Btw I’m also wondering what one would use a WiFi dongle for on the mod duo?
this is normal on android, it does not allow bluetooth network while mobile data or WiFi is on.
for opening the gui using bluetooth use 192.168.50.1 as IP (note the 50 instead of regular 51 as used in USB)
Great! That worked thanks 
Could u explain what the use of getting a WiFi adapter would be btw?
That would allow a wireless connection to a computer to use the Web GUI. It should be faster than Bluetooth.
Any other applications besides connecting to the UI?
Why have the option of both??
Nope
Both what ?
both bluetooth and wifi…
Basically “why not”, considering that in both cases external dongles are required, and who knows what do you have on your shelf to plug it. I do not see a problem in having both options.
To my understanding, wifi support had been added later as an experimental feature, so having both has at least historical reasons, as a part of continuous development.
I hope that in the future wifi could be used as a hotspot for accessing webui, and updated bluez stack would lead to midi-over-bluetooth support without CME WIDI dongles. If it would happen one day, it’s how it makes a perfect sense to have both even working in the same time.
Tried Hama bluetooth 5 dongle with Dwarf, seems to have Realtek chip in it. It shows only “starting” forever when I go to bluetooth menu and doesn’t go past that. Any tips how to get it to work, or should I just get different dongle?
I have same problme
have any idea for this?
My BT dongle is tp-link UB500
I have the same dongle, and it works for me.
Anyway, the connection is very slow, so i’m not using it anymore.
These model names might mean nothing in a world of dlinks/tplinks and other vendors like that.
I know nothing about this model, but in general - tplink can sell completely different hardware under the same name, one would have Realtek chip, another Broadcom chip, and they would have different drivers, compatibility, etc.
Naming difference would be only in some obscure revision number which seller never tells you.
At least this applies to wifi hardware, and I would expect same from Bluetooth as well.
Same model dongle TP-Link ub500. Same problem of stuck “starting…”. When I am able I will see what chip it is using and see if I can get it going. I don’t really feel like purchasing endless Bluetooth dongles just to find one that works.
t seems that I have a UB500 v2 which is using Realtek Bluetooth 8761B chipset. I assume I need to SSH in and create a /data/firmware/rtl_bt directory and copy both the firmware and config bin files in?
https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware/+/refs/heads/main/rtl_bt/rtl8761b_fw.bin
AND
https://kernel.googlesource.com/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware/+/refs/heads/main/rtl_bt/rtl8761b_config.bin
Is that correct?
Hi, I think I might have a similar problem. Did you try that and did it work? Thanks!
Stranger things. I SSH in and plugged in dongle. Dmesg said both fw and config bin files loaded (they were already found on the device, I didn’t have to copy them in). Bluetooth was then discoverable on the mod dwarf and I could connect. The next time I tried, powering the MOD Dwarf with the dongle in, I had the same issue again and could not connect. I have found that it works if I wait until the Dwarf is booted before plugging the dongle. Perhaps the Wiki needs reviewing about this.
Haha… plugging in after boot seemed to work for me too. Thank you!