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Question - Bluetooth Repeater

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Anyone know of any manufacturer that offers a repeater for BLUETOOTH. Not a WiFi repeater or Bluetooth power booster. I am looking for a Bluetooth Repeater. If they exist, can anyone point me in the right direction?

Thank you,
Doug
 

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Nope, Unless I overlooked something in their specifications and description. Those both are routers/hubs and all they do is allow for multiple blue tooth devices to communicate with each other, similar to how a router, hub or switch functions. I am looking for a Blue Tooth REPEATER that would extend the range of a blue tooth device to another blue tooth device.

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I'm guessing that such a device would be illegal. Take a look at the spectrum allocations for bluetooth devices and see if there are provisions there for input and output subbands.
 

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All I am wanting to accomplish here is to extend the current communication distance of one of my blue tooth devices an additional 50 feet. I don't care if it is illegal and I am not going to go searching for hours trying to find out. Either such as device exists or it doesn't. All I am asking is if anyone knows of such a repeater device for blue tooth.

Thanks much,
Doug
 

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Doesnt care if its illegal and doesnt want to spend time trying to find it.

Does not exist. close thread. LOL
 

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Blue tooth is 2.4ghz.
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You can simply buy two 2.4ghz panel antennas and plug them into each other the higher the gain the better.
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Point one toward one blue tooth device and the other towards the other one.
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This will act as a passive repeater which should extend the range.
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Blue tooth is 2.4ghz.
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You can simply buy two 2.4ghz panel antennas and plug them into each other the higher the gain the better.
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Point one toward one blue tooth device and the other towards the other one.
.......
This will act as a passive repeater which should extend the range.
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actually, in practice that won't work well if at all. If you figure in the free space loss at each side of the passive repeater, any gain is negated. Only if you have a tremendous amount of building loss, might such a thing work. 400 square foot billboard antennas work at microwaves, but only with careful engineering.
 

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Do you mean something like this?

https://www.cassianetworks.com/products/cassia-hub/

https://www.amazon.com/Cassia-Networks-C100-10-Bluetooth-Router/dp/B01M1H55DO

Cassia also makes some enterprise-level Bluetooth extenders ...

This killed the deal for me right away:

"(one) stars Subscription required do not buy
ByCP Mulreadyon February 20, 2018
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This is not a autonomous device, it requires you to sign up to cloud sevice account to access it’s functionality. If you Buy something you should be able to use it out of the box and not have to sign up or provide any personal information online to use it."

It requires an APP, not sure it is really a BT repeater in the manner it works.
 
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