Subj : bluetooth speaker appears as a keyboard?!? To : All From : G6JPG-255@255soft.uk Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:25 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.o rg!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: bluetooth speaker appears as a keyboard?!? Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2017 18:33:50 +0000 Organization: 255 software Lines: 30 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="cfe695150db41e39b4238ee43634dadd"; logging-data="3172"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19R80SP1Fmv8sDChpRP2PkI" User-Agent: Turnpike/6.07-M () Cancel-Lock: sha1:2JZEA4z/UMrZng5Uljs4GROfMHw= Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134613 I've just received a tiny bluetooth speaker - it's intended for a friend who wants something for her iPhone so she can use it outdoors with the 'phone in a pocket or pouch, but as she wears hearing aids, she doesn't want headphones - something that can sit on her shoulder (like a police set). I've found this one (Google EC101 bluetooth speaker). I'm _very_ taken with it - it's well smaller than a matchbox, seems very well made, and judging by the chimes it makes when you turn it on, it makes sound out of all proportion to its size. And it has a clip on the back that will attach it to a shoulder strap. (And it came from China in 9 days - I ordered it thence as it was half the price UK sellers want it.) However: I obviously want to test it before giving, so I tried with this (XP) computer. On the second and subsequent tries the computer sees it no problem (first time might have been finger trouble) - but thinks it's a keyboard! (Not only that, but the computer pops up a "type this on your bluetooth keyboard" so briefly that even if it was a keyboard, I'd not be able to do it in time.) Any thoughts? At the moment, I'm thinking that maybe it's incompatible bluetooth versions: it says it's version 4.1, which I'm pretty certain is a very recent one. I had assumed bluetooth versions were backwards-compatible, but maybe they're not? (FWIW I have another bluetooth speaker - a much bigger one - which works fine with this machine.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf If you believe in telekinesis, raise my right hand --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .