How Can I Use A Bluetooth Headset With Skype And/or My Laptop?
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009 at
11:32 am
I have a Plantronics Voyager 510 bluetooth headset and a Dell Latitude D600 laptop. I would like to use my bluetooth headset with my laptop for Skype and possibly other applications.
The Plantronics website says that they sell a USB/Bluetooth adapter that has the needed profiles in it, but I would think that there is some piece of software that would allow me to use it, as this seems to be an issue that is standard with many if not all bluetooth headsets.
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Okay, so you’ve got bluetooth on the laptop. What you need then is an updated driver to add the support for that profile. There’s people trying to do the same thing on this Skype forum thread:http://forum.skype.com/index.php?s=1e23e…
If you read the posts from the user “golfman” on that page he’s got the same laptop as you and seems to have got it working by donwloading updated Dell drivers.
do you mean that the internal bluetooth card in your laptop does not support the ‘bluetooth headset’ profile, or that the bluetooth software you’re using doesn’t support the ‘bluetooth headset’ profile?
if the bluetooth hardware doesn’t support it, there’s not much you can do. if the software doesn’t support it, you can test different bluetooth drivers.
there are not many bluetooth ’stacks’, two main ones are:
widcomm
bluesoleil
(and of course windows xp built-in)
good luck with getting hold of bluesoleil though, the only ‘legal’ downloads to the best of my knowledge stop working after 5mb worth of data transfer per session. i don’t think it’s generally possible to get alternate bluetooth drivers for your bluetooth hardware easily – plus the drivers have to support your hardware.
Nope, the adapter would do everything on it, you wouldn’t need to do anything.