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Eclipse SmartHome Bluetooth Binding
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Expose this binding to remote computer #15

Open matteopedani opened 6 years ago

matteopedani commented 6 years ago

Some bluetooth devices are too far and they are not seen from my hopenhab on my raspbery.

I can see two ways: 1) Connect and extra high gain omnidirectional antenna. 2) Connect two or more raspberry sparse in the house.

What is the best way to export the data to remote raspberry and use more than one raspberry to collect the data?

bademux commented 6 years ago

Keeping complexity of the system as low as possible is always good way to solve a problem. So I suggest to extend BT range if possible. As far as I know smarthome-bluetooth-binding allows to use multiple dongles to improve connections stability.

vkolotov commented 6 years ago

As @bademux mentioned above, @matteopedani you can use as many adapters as you want. Get a usb extension cable (5m max) or a usb repeater cable (25m max). This should be enough for most of the applications.

xrucka commented 5 years ago

@matteopedani For future reference - I'm using 2 RPi's, one running openhab + local CSR adapter, the other exposes two bluetooth dongles (one behind behind 5m usb extension cable) via usbip. Works fine, each device connects to closest adapter.

Although, there are rare situations when I need to reexport the dongles.