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Old 19-09-2008, 08:26 PM
Dennis
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Hi Mat

If you are asking “can you stream video data from the DBK41 at the telescope to your computer in the house” using Bluetooth, I would guess no?

To my understanding, Bluetooth wasn’t designed to transfer large volumes of data such as video data, over large distances. It is a PAN (Personal Area Network).

Whilst I have controlled my mount using a PDA and Bluetooth, this is quite different to streaming a video signal. USB2 is specified at 400Mb/sec and when I last looked, Bluetooth (the original) ran at less than 1Mb/sec and although Bluetooth 2 has since arrived, I think that it is still less than even a pedestrian 2 or 3 Mb/sec?

Cheers

Dennis
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