Bluetooth speaker

[wtp]

let's just take it slow for a bit.
are the speakers making any sound at all ?

 

[KevinC]

Thank you and I appreciate that. I went to Walmart and bought a 3.5mm audio jack. I had to charge my tablet and wipe the dust off of it. In doing this, I had to install quite a few updates. However, when all completed, I could get no sound to come across my tablet speakers. It does have Bluetooth but I wanted to see if I could get them on the tablet speaker first. Not sure what I’m doing wrong but gave up for now till tomorrow.

I appreciate your help and your suggestions are greatly appreciated!!😊I am willing to go spend some money if this doesn’t work. In your opinion, what would next option be? I’m willing to spend up to $100 probably if need be.

Does your tablet actually have an mic input? If it does you need to use the headphone jack on the scanner and not the speaker jack.
And if it's a combo headphone/mic jack on the tablet you'll probably need a TRSS cable and not a TRS like you got.

 

[SaukScanR]

Hello, I am wanting to put my scanner upstairs in my house because I get better reception upstairs than I do downstairs. Problem is, we are always downstairs. Does anyone have any cheaper suggestions on what I could do for maybe a Bluetooth speaker I could put downstairs? I have and old Grecom PSR 600. I know there is a little gadget I can plug into the headphone jack so I can Bluetooth the audio to a speaker. Could I do this for downstairs? If so, would anyone have any suggestions? Is there a Bluetooth speaker I could just keep plugged in all the time?

Thanks!!

I have been using one of these for years. You plug it into scanner audio output and choose a frequency. Any radio/stereo around your home will play your scanner over that frequency.
Edit: If these are too expensive, check Ebay for a used one. FM Audio Transmitter | Digital FM Transmitters | C. Crane

 

[n1ti]

Hello, I am wanting to put my scanner upstairs in my house because I get better reception upstairs than I do downstairs. Problem is, we are always downstairs. Does anyone have any cheaper suggestions on what I could do for maybe a Bluetooth speaker I could put downstairs? I have and old Grecom PSR 600. I know there is a little gadget I can plug into the headphone jack so I can Bluetooth the audio to a speaker. Could I do this for downstairs? If so, would anyone have any suggestions? Is there a Bluetooth speaker I could just keep plugged in all the time?

Thanks!!

If you have smart devices such as Amazon Echos it’s easy. I put an echo dot in the workshop with my scanners and from any room where I have other echos I can simply say “Alexa, drop in on workshop” to listen remotely. Other than that there are several ways to accomplish remote monitoring beyond the reach of Bluetooth speakers. A raspberry pi to capture and stream, baby monitor, remote ip cam with audio, etc. even a low power FRS radio with VOX enabled. Each have their own caveats but all work. Good luck.

 

[Brales60]

I have been using one of these for years. You plug it into scanner audio output and choose a frequency. Any radio/stereo around your home will play your scanner over that frequency.
Edit: If these are too expensive, check Ebay for a used one. FM Audio Transmitter | Digital FM Transmitters | C. Crane

Amazon has those too, along with some other options.

 

[Jn2022]

let's just take it slow for a bit.
are the speakers making any sound at all ?

The speakers were not making any sound at all.

 

[Jn2022]

I have been using one of these for years. You plug it into scanner audio output and choose a frequency. Any radio/stereo around your home will play your scanner over that frequency.
Edit: If these are too expensive, check Ebay for a used one. FM Audio Transmitter | Digital FM Transmitters | C. Crane

That is so neat! I have never heard of these before!😊

 

[Jn2022]

If you have smart devices such as Amazon Echos it’s easy. I put an echo dot in the workshop with my scanners and from any room where I have other echos I can simply say “Alexa, drop in on workshop” to listen remotely. Other than that there are several ways to accomplish remote monitoring beyond the reach of Bluetooth speakers. A raspberry pi to capture and stream, baby monitor, remote ip cam with audio, etc. even a low power FRS radio with VOX enabled. Each have their own caveats but all work. Good luck.

Thank you so much! Certainly a lot of options. 😊

 

[wtp]

that is the point, find all the options and pick the best.