Roaming bt headset request

[apoyusiken]

is there a headset that can connect to many sources and play any incoming audio? also id like wired input too. 

[whispous]

Not many sources all at the same time, no. You'd have to switch between sources, with bluetooth.

[Psittac]

You mean like a mesh BT? Never heard of it.

[Timme]

8 hours ago, apoyusiken said:

is there a headset that can connect to many sources and play any incoming audio? also id like wired input too. 

Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 3, SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro, and Sony INZONE H9 are examples. "Simultaneous Bluetooth" are looking you for.

[Kilrah]

1 hour ago, Timme said:

Turtle Beach Stealth 700 Gen 3, SteelSeries Arctis Nova Pro, and Sony INZONE H9 are examples. "Simultaneous Bluetooth" are looking you for.

None of those offers multiple BT connections as far as I can see, it's one BT together with the other using dedicated RF.

 

[eLLe7]

Multi point connection. I think the maximum is just two devices at the same time. 

[Kilrah]

Yeah I believe there are some that can do 2 because I remember reading a review of something saying "this can't do it unlike ____" but haven't been able to find either the article or devices again in a quick look...

[Timme]

4 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

None of those offers multiple BT connections as far as I can see, it's one BT together with the other using dedicated RF.

 

        It is technically impossible for a device to receive and transmit audio from two sources over a single radio connection/channel; doing so is practically impossible without two separate radio connections(one is 2.4GHz, another - Bluetooth) and a coordination layer, in the form of some sort DSP/'audio controller' integrated solution, to manage and mix the different connections/channels. Which is absolutely not a trivial thing, and in our Beautiful day and age, gaming or even sound-oriented headphones don't support simultaneous "dual VOIP uplink" connections with a single mic, so it can only be done in a one-source/receiver-at-a-time, so you can maintain an active call/Discord session only on one of the connected devices. 
       

 

[Kilrah]

32 minutes ago, Timme said:

It is technically impossible for a device to receive and transmit audio from two sources over a single radio connection/channel; doing so is practically impossible without two separate radio connections(one is 2.4GHz, another - Bluetooth) and a coordination layer, in the form of some sort DSP/'audio controller' integrated solution, to manage and mix the different connections/channels.

Your can connect 3 BT audio devices and a BT mouse at the same time to your PC and have them all work at the same time just fine. Headsets that can take BT + dedicated, dedicated + 3.5 or whatever combination of them can already do mixing.

There is no hard technical limitation that makes it impossible, It's just that nothing has software support for that specific use case.

[Timme]

3 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

ur can connect 3 BT audio devices and a BT mouse at the same time to your PC

Do you not see the difference between multiple headphones sharing a signal(and bandwidth) from a single device, or any other, and multiple devices connected to a single pair of headphones that can stream audio from two devices, and while also allowing for a VOIP communication with one of the devices simultaneously, without loosing in soundquality of either of the sources? 

[Kilrah]

13 minutes ago, Timme said:

Do you not see the difference between multiple headphones sharing a signal(and bandwidth) from a single device, or any other, and multiple devices connected to a single pair of headphones that can stream audio from two devices

No because in both cases it's one radio on one side communicating with multiple devices on the other and handling different streams to each of them, doesn't matter which direction the data flows.

[apoyusiken]

1 hour ago, Timme said:

Do you not see the difference between multiple headphones sharing a signal(and bandwidth) from a single device, or any other, and multiple devices connected to a single pair of headphones that can stream audio from two devices, and while also allowing for a VOIP communication with one of the devices simultaneously, without loosing in soundquality of either of the sources? 

do you think bt is only 2.400 MHZ and nothing else?

[apoyusiken]

1 hour ago, Kilrah said:

No because in both cases it's one radio on one side communicating with multiple devices on the other and handling different streams to each of them, doesn't matter which direction the data flows.

ok thx i got my answer, i figure there is nothing affordable but maybe i can build one with esp32. I wonder if bt will transmit faster data in the future with higher energy efficiency.

[Kilrah]

You could run this on a PC, depending on your radio it'll handle 2-3 incoming streams and mix them, and then output through something else like a dedicated dongle/wired.

https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/9N9WCLWDQS5J?hl=neutral&gl=CH&ocid=pdpshare

 

Or just run whatever you're running on the multiple devices on the same one, which most would likely do hence the lack of such products.

 

Can also always buy multiple $3 BT audio receiver modules and mix their outputs, pretty easy DIY job. 

[Timme]

7 minutes ago, apoyusiken said:

do you think bt is only 2.400 MHZ and nothing else?

I'm talking about two separate connections - one with a separate 2.4GHz dongle, and another is a BT connection.

[Timme]

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