Bluetooth.

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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

Please follow along.. its a serious question..

Say you are standing in Harvey Norman, or Joyce Mayne or any major TV retailer showroom.
There are 20 odd TV's on display,, all showing different movies/shows
You place an identical Bluetooth wifi dongle in every TV running,

How can you tell from the list that comes up on your phone which TV is displaying what?



and the followup question is,, which device is in charge of security/pairing?

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assuming the example you gave (i.e. no other software/tech involved), all the "BT dongles" should show up on your phone by name (as a discoverable device). If all of your dongles are the same I would imagine it would be very difficult to identify which TV a particular dongle is plugged into. You can give the BT device (the dongle) a new name on your phone(an alias). if you were to do this for each one, you would then be able to differentiate between them.

The phone would usually be used to govern permission for the connection but, seeing as you would be initiating the connection from the phone permission is essentially granted then anyway.

Bluetooth Pairing: Network Connection >> Electronics Notes

Renaming on iPhone:
Change the name of a Bluetooth accessory - Apple Support

and on Andoid:
Change Android Device Name - WiFi / Bluetooth / Hotspot Name

unplug the other 5 dongles, will leave u with 1. connect to that

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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

Hmm, ok,,
if there are 6 tv's showing 6 different shows with the same wifi dongle in each,
and I want to listen to show from number 2,,
can I pick the right show from the info off my phone?

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OK, so you are wanting to mirror the TV on your phone. That's not usually the way it works. Normally your phone is the source and your TV the output. To do the reverse, you would need some software installed on both the TV and the phone. You wouldn't necessarily need BT to accomplish that as long as your TVs and phone are connected to the same network (eg home WIFI).

Here's an example that uses WIFI:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2SitEmphb0

...not sure I would trust it though.

PS you originally mention connecting via BT but now talking WIFI...two different things as I'm sure you know.

My apologies,, its a Bluetooth thing... [bighmmm]

and its for sound only...

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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

My apologies,, its a Bluetooth thing... [bighmmm]

and its for sound only...

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ahh OK, so wanting to do the BT headphone thing?

Like this:
https://youtu.be/eazAn9l11cY

Obviously if your equipment is capable of it you could do like the above.

Going back to your original question of "how do you know which one", you'll have to plug your BT devices in one at a time (like Eevo said) and rename them with something meaningful as per the instructions I posted earlier. Then you can continue on your merry way.

and even after all that only one connection/listener to each tv,, right?

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Originally Posted by Pedro_The_Swift

and even after all that only one connection/listener to each tv,, right?

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yes that's right.

Hmmm...