Bluetooth 5.0 Tranmitter Dongle: having a hard time finding one that loads drivers

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I'm trying to find a BT 5.0 Dongle that actually loads the Win10 drivers in devices so I can control through the Windows 10 Bluetooth options.

Most of them are "driverless" and therefore dumb dongles. You can't control anything they do. You plug them in, and they connect with the first available BT device. The only way to control what those dumb dongles do is unplug it and replug it, or Plug and Pray. "F-that shit!"--Frank Booth in "Blue Velvet."

Any ideas?
 
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Pretty sure that's handled through Windows and any BT dongle you buy isn't gonna have drivers/software included with it.

I'll have to see if I can find my old 4.0 BT dongle, but IIRC I just plugged it into my Windows 7 desktop, downloaded the Windows 7 BT software and it allowed me to search for devices much like you'd search for a WiFi network to connect to.
 
Pretty sure that's handled through Windows and any BT dongle you buy isn't gonna have drivers/software included with it.

I'll have to see if I can find my old 4.0 BT dongle, but IIRC I just plugged it into my Windows 7 desktop, downloaded the Windows 7 BT software and it allowed me to search for devices much like you'd search for a WiFi network to connect to.

Yeah, that's what I want, but I can't find a BT dongle to do that. They are all these plug and auto models, which I hate. I think most people are using them to as passive receivers--which is ok. But, I need a transmitter that I can control. I use to have an old Creative Sound Blaster Wifi sound card. It was USB and had a receiver you plugged into your AUX. The USB dongle would show up as a sound device, so you could either use your integrated sound card or you could choose the SB usb dongle, but you have full control over it. SB no longer has the drivers for it and said it was an end of life hardware, so I tossed it.

I was thinking, "Oh, BT 5.0 will be so much easier, and there are tons of them." No such luck in paradise.

I've been trying to find a good search string for it, like "Bluetooth, Dongle, Windows 10 devices" lol

The only other option I can think of is to break down and buy a GD combo card (wifi/BT) and do ti that way. Then the price goes from 15 to 40.

Also, back in the day, if you wanted to know something like that, places like HardOCP would most likely have the reviews or the article. It's hard to find any technical PC web sties anymore. It's just a bunch of shit sites that have generic information and links to amazon for the products they paste onto their sites,without any real review at all. Sickening.
 
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You need to find out what the actual chipset of the bluetooth dongle is. Try here for a broadcom driver:

https://www.inateck.com/support-downpage?country_code=com

I have this one and it's a broad com chip. I can't remember any others off the top of my head. After that you should be able to control it via windows.
You have one of thee USB dongle or the add in card. The link opened to page with 9 items, only one is a dongle. The problem with the dongle is that they don't communicate at the driver level, so even if you found the chip set and loaded the drivers, Windows isn't going to know it's there, or Windows would have loaded the Windows generic drivers?

I just want to confirm that you are using the Dongle and you actually got driver level control over it loading the chipset drivers?

I really don't want to buy a BT add-in card right now. I'll probably have to when I upgrade my rig. .
 
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