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.
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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.
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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.
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