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Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by weberc2 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:10AM (#21825585)
> any existing SBCs will need to be replaced/extended to support new type of network and due to bloated protocol specs with a myriad of abstraction levels will render it almost impossible to implement it on your own and the open source library that can do that will implement the standard as specified whereas all proprietary solutions will have some quirks and little differences from official standard making it very hard to connect to anything from your open source lib.

Whoa, is it really necessary to call BlueTooth out like that?

Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by aequitas on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @10:21AM (#21825718)
BT v1 to v3 maybe, but BTLE/v4 solved a lot of the problems afaik.
Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by weberc2 on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:03AM (#21826186)
You're probably right. It's been a while since I had the misfortune of working with BT.
Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by aequitas on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @11:41AM (#21826631)
Re:Amazon, Apple, Google, and the Zigbee Alliance to develop... by lostlogin on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:09PM (#21826928)
For anyone not following the the link, cptskippy has given a user perspective that summarises things nicely in my view:

β€œIt's easier to tell when you're not using BLE. :) The Tesla Model 3 uses traditional Bluetooth for phone calls and streaming but the Phone as a Key functionality is BLE. When you walk up to the car and try to open it and the car says FU then BLE isn't working. When your Xiaomi Mi Band smartwatch hasn't buzzed all day but you pull your smartphone out of your pocket and have 8 missed calls, 100 messages, and 500 emails then BLE isn't working. When you're at a Tech Conference and the Conference App uses BLE Beacons to help navigate you indoors and it can't determine your location then BLE isn't working.”