- Bluetooth is a wireless technology used
for short distance communication
with mobile device accessories, such as headsets
and speakers, and much more.
Let's show how to
connect a typical class two headset device.
And I have a couple here.
Here's a headset.
Quite often you'll need to push a button
on the headset and hold it while you make the
Bluetooth connection.
Quite often, these charge via micro USB.
And so I have another headset here, so we'll go
through that and we'll connect
to this particular headset.
And here you can see the phone
and the headset and see the phone
a little bit bigger.
So the first thing you need to do is go
to your settings to turn on Bluetooth.
And if we swipe down here
I'm gonna go to do not disturb as usual.
But if you swipe down here
and take a look at what you have
you'll notice that whether or not
your Bluetooth is
on and you can see here
that it's grayed out and it wasn't
in the notification bar.
So we knew it was off.
And so first thing we need to do is turn that
on so we can turn that on here.
Or we can go to the settings.
If you turn it on here
it'll automatically start looking for available devices.
And on most of these devices, you just press a button
and hold that button so they can find it.
And we were a little bit late
so we'll hold that button down and press search.
And it sees the MPOW, that's this headset.
So we'll tap on that.
And it does something known as pairing.
Pairing the Bluetooth device to the mobile device.
Now, in some cases you'll need to enter a pin.
If a pin has been created on the device
sometimes manufacturers will have a default pin
of 0, 0, 0, 0.
And in some cases you can configure your own pin
so nobody else can use the device.
But at this point it shows that we are connected.
We'll close this out
and to see more about Bluetooth, we'll scroll down,
We'll go to settings
and you'll see Bluetooth under network here.
And you'll see it is on.
We can turn it on and off from here
and you can make changes to the settings
by tapping on it.
And you can see what's connected right now.
So we have this MPOW connected
for call audio, it's in blue.
So we know it's working.
We can go to settings for that.
And from here, you could unpair it
if you need to
or just turn off the ability to use it
with call audio.
If it's getting in the way of
of actually talking on the phone
with either another device
or within an automobile, or just on a phone itself.
So you can just turn that off if you don't want
to unpair it, but that's
basic pairing right there.
And this is a normal, a typical class two
headset device.
Class two devices, such as this have a range
of 33 feet or 10 meters.
And in my office here, you have obstructions.
You have walls, you have doors.
So it's not gonna be that far.
It's gonna be less than that in most cases.
So those steps, again, you go to settings
you turn on Bluetooth, enable it on the mobile device.
The navigational path may be slightly different depending
on the version of Android, or
if you're using iOS or the manufacturer of the device.
Then you prepare the device, press
and hold the button and then search on your actual phone.
And it's gonna work that way with most devices out there.
Okay. Now let's connect a Bluetooth speaker to an iPad.
And so to do that first
we'll turn on the Bluetooth speaker with the on button.
And then on the iPad, we'll go to settings
go to Bluetooth and make sure it's turned on.
It's not right now.
So we'll tap it to enable it
and that'll start automatically looking
for devices out there.
So we'll have to transmit
with the Bluetooth button here, press that.
And right away it found it JBL charge three.
We'll tap on that to attempt to pair to it.
And it made a little noise.
Usually music going up that tells you that you're connected.
And we know we are, because it says it here
in the iPad as well.
Right? So I mean
it's that easy to connect to these devices again
if pairing is necessary would ask you
for a four digit code and I'd have to type that in correctly
and then it'll keep on searching for other devices.
But we are connected to this one.
If we wanna find out more information, we can.
We can disconnect it if need be and forget it.
Totally. If it seems to be getting in the way
for some reason, sometimes Bluetooth devices will do that.
Right? And so we can test it,
play a little bit of music.
all works good.
So that's a quick setup with that.
Now let's say we wanted to connect with our phone
to this device.
At that point, we would have two devices connected
to the phone, but generally to do that, you'd want to
disable it from the other device first.
So we could tap on that and go to disconnect.
Okay. So it remembers it for now unless we choose forget
and it just says not connected.
And at this point we could try connecting from the phone
and have two devices on here, right?
So we'll tap the circle here to start searching.
And it's actually seeing the iPad as well,
because Bluetooth is on now
so they could communicate with each other.
Okay. And we'll search one more time
and press that Bluetooth button again
And it sees it.
So we'll tap it on here, JBL Charge
and it pairs it up.
Now, two things about this you'll notice.
And let me bring this guy over here.
You'll notice here that the MPOW
that's the headset that we connected previously
that is connected for call audio only
for voice calls and you see the JBL charge here.
The speaker is connected for call and media audio.
Chances are, you won't want it for voice calls.
You'll want to use this, the MPOW,
the headset for voice calls and for media, for music
you want the speaker.
So we could change that by tapping
on the setting Sprocket for that JBL charge and turn off
call audio and just allow media audio on that one.
Okay. So generally what you want here
is a connectivity that works for the user.
If you have multiple profiles, multiple Bluetooth devices
you may need to do a little bit of configuring with those
and generally try not to have multiple devices competing
for the same Bluetooth device,
speaker, or whatever else
Okay? So there's a little bit of Bluetooth
for you and another cool technology you might be interested
in on the iPad side of things is airdrop
which allows people to transmit information
to each other really quickly like images, stuff like that.
It goes by the user, within the Apple community
but that utilizes Bluetooth to make the connection.
So Bluetooth has to be on, you know
we have to have Bluetooth enabled
and then it uses wifi to do the actual transfer of data.
So it's a combination of technologies.
So another cool thing to check out.
That's airdrop technology, but that is different
from other types of beaming and say NFC technologies
which we'll talk about in another video.
So once again, know about class two devices
and their maximum range of 33 feet or 10 meters
and understand the basics
of how to connect Bluetooth devices
and change the settings for those Bluetooth devices.
And that's it for this video.