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Hi all,

Using an old Sitecom Bluetooth dongle on Vista HP. I'm searching for a "front end" for bluetooth, something like Bluesoleil.

However, a free alternative is more what I'm looking for.

Any suggestions?

Thank you.
 
Conrad11 said:
Argh....whatever you do...NO BLUESOLEIL!!

Use the inbuilt Vista Bluetooth Stack?
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Top answer. :D Bluesoleil is evil. I once got told by Bluesoleil to pay 30 Euros + for the upgrade of the program to allow to do something the copy of Bluesoleil I got with a bluetooth dongle should have let me do. *shudders*

XP has a built-in Bluetooth stack. Can't see why Vista wouldn't. :)
 
some bluetooth adaptors (usually the mega cheap ones) only seem to work with bluesolil (i think the devil himself makes this)

with a decent bluetooth dongle, you just plug it in and it doesn't need a driver

get a different one :)
 
bledd. said:
some bluetooth adaptors (usually the mega cheap ones) only seem to work with bluesolil (i think the devil himself makes this)

with a decent bluetooth dongle, you just plug it in and it doesn't need a driver

get a different one :)
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*MOST* (yes even the cheap ones) can be "hacked" to work "plug and play" (as you would say).....which means, hacked to work with the inbuilt Microsoft Bluetooth Stack.
 
bledd. said:
ah cool :)

any guides?
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Erm, can't remember the address to it and can't find it at the moment.

Here's a quick rundown for those that are computer-literate:

Make sure you do this with the dongle out of the PC.

1. Go to "Device Manager", find your bluetooth dongle, double click on it to open properties.
2. Go to the details tab and select "Hardware Ids" from the drop-down-menu. Make a note of all the values, usually there are 2.
3. Do a search on your Windows drive for "bth.ini" (on vista it is in the "C:\Windows\inf" folder IIRC).
4. Make a backup.
5. Open the file in a text editor and scroll down to you start seeing lines like: "Motion Computing USB Bluetooth Device= BthUsb, USB\Vid_10ab&Pid_1002".
6. Edit one of the lines changing the end bit to your hardware id.
7. Save the file.
8. Stick the bluetooth dongle in, if it fails to install go back to step 6 any of the other hardware id's you got in step 2.
9. Copy your new bth.ini file incase you do a reinstall.
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I know this works on 32bit xp & vista, but I am unsure about 64bit so this may not work for you bledd.

Wasn't the guide i used but: http://msyaifudin.wordpress.com/2008/07/20/hacking-bluetooth-wo-cd-drivers-2/.

With this guide I got a new bluetooth v2.0 dongle for £3.50 delivered and it works with inbuilt XP and Vista stack.
 
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i quit using bluetooth a while back, but mine was just detected anyway, but cheers though, my mum's got a cheap one, will do that on her pc
 
bledd. said:
i quit using bluetooth a while back, but mine was just detected anyway, but cheers though, my mum's got a cheap one, will do that on her pc
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I've got it inbuilt now as I have a DELL module which is officially support with Vista and the Widcomm stack.

Useful technology IMO as its cheaper than wifi. Its getting a lossless audio codec soon, and its getting faster, cheaper and requires less & less power...so I think it will be used a lot in audio in the future.

My laptop is a media center by night and I use the Sony PS3 BluRay Bluetooth remote with Vista Media Center so I don't have to have line of sight.

Also use bluetooth to transfer things to and from my phone which has no wifi.
 
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