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Getting the AIRcable Host XR5 on a Mac or Macbook gives unprecedented long range Bluetooth capabilities: for listening to music, connect keyboard and mouse in your home theatre setup or getting sensor data from across the house. But, sometimes, the operating system OSX does not let you switch between the...

So, is it really possible to extend the Bluetooth range of a Playstation 4 controller with an AIRcable Host XR5? Although we were not able to use the PS3 controller the PS4 did in fact work. A helpful tip of turning Bluetooth off, then plugging in the AIRcable Host XR5...

The AIRcable Story* *Read it here:* The AIRcable Story [1] [1] https://www.odoo.com/blog/customer-reviews-6/post/wireless-cables-expands-the-reach-of-bluetooth-technology-457...

**Introducing: The new AIRcable Serials.** The next generation of our AIRcable Serial products is based on Bluetooth Low Energy [1] . The main advantage is, that this type of wireless protocol is available on every platform, iOS, Android, Linux and now also on  the Chrome browser independent of the operating...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:  7/18/2017 Dr. Juergen Kienhoefer, CEO Wireless Cables Inc. juergen@aircable.net Wireless Cables Inc Announces Bluetooth Mesh Products Long-range Bluetooth company creates unique solutions with the new standard Campbell, CA: Today, Wireless Cables Inc. announces a range of products [1] and services based on the Bluetooth mesh standard. Industrial customers...

The Physical Web** For Everyone* The Physical Web enables you to discover web pages associated with everyday objects and locations. It is powered by bluetooth low energy (BLE) beacons that broadcast URLs using the Eddystone format. Various mobile browsers and smart phone apps are working to display these URLs. This...

The other way around* Keeping track of valuable assets solves a number of business challenges to stay efficient and minimize loss. Privately, it's about convenience, when you try to find your car keys somewhere in the house. But keeping a tap in real time on things has been a difficult...

*Range* One of the major driving forces of the smart mesh communication protocol is range. Range is limited and depends on the performance of the transmitter as well as the sensitivity of the receiver radio. The propagation of radio waves in the microwave spectrum is severely constrained by walls and...

* New Style Proximity Marketing* With Eddystone-url The Physical Web [1] is Google's the new way to promote business and information available around you. It is called Eddystone URL. Our new version of the SuperBeacon [2] can now also transmit Eddystone URL messages at a much higher output power to...

*Serial Communication in the Smart Mesh* Industrial Applications This blog post gives detailed information about our new AIRcable MiniMesh [1] product. It is based on our AIRcable Mini, a cost effective serial RS232 to standard Bluetooth (SPP), which is very successful for our industrial customers. Connecting a machine, a sensor...

Open Source Wireless Cables Inc. is introducing the first, bridgeless, universal smart mesh Bluetooth controller application. It is now available for free on iPhone as a native app [1] (bridgeless). With "bridgeless", we mean that no GATT connection to an external hardware is required. While iOS can already receive any...

*Is the smart mesh low power?* Not really. Creating a mesh means, that there is no connection. When there is no connection, devices cannot easily coordinate the timing parameters, such as a GATT type connection that keeps the connection with very little communication. But the smart mesh has a *...

Discovery We've always been troubled with the fact that when you start the old CSR Bluetooth SmartMesh application on your smartphone, you see, well.... nothing! The app, e.g. Feit HomeBrite, or CSR's demo app, always wants to associate a new smart mesh device first. Before that you can't see anything....

Rogers Arena [1] *Eddystone Everywhere* I wanted to tell you about how our AIRcable SuperBeacons tested in a stadium environment. They performed perfectly. We had Rogers Arena to ourselves for testing 2 weeks ago. We set up the SuperBeacons and those antennas right in the middle of the arena floor....

Here we present real world tests using the AIRcable Host XR4 long range Bluetooth transceiver in an typical outdoor environment. The goal was to achieve maximum range between certain locations and device a user can carry to different locations, e.g. a key chain. We place the Host XR4 with a...

While working on the smart mesh for a year now, we always had the difficulty to find out what mesh nodes are available in your network. CSR as well as Feit Homebrite [1] products use a discovery mechanism, by broadcasting PING packets when the user starts the mesh controller app....

As said before, the Bluetooth SmartMesh is just a communication protocol over a particular broadcast channel. These physical communication channels are called BEARERs. The first channel defined for this protocol is the Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) broadcast channel, the BLE Bearer*. It uses the 3 advertising channels in BLE, normally used...

What is the Bluetooth SmartMesh? The Bluetooth SmartMesh is a communication protocol designed by CSR's Robin Heydon, published in Summer 2013. CSR makes Bluetooth chips and the goal was to enable Bluetooth for home automation. Bluetooth typically relies on a point to point connection. which requires good signal strength. It...

Juergen spoke at the MEDSec 2016 [1] conference about the security aspects of the upcoming SIG standardized Bluetooth SmartMesh for medical devices. His presentation slides are here [2] . [1] http://medsecmeeting.org/ [2] https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_JdYLJycZ20MAdvVQgo_TcvfAIhYSHhPGbArzCnu9oU/pub?start=false&loop=false&delayms=3000...

This is the review of the 2016 AIRcable Audio receiver from Wireless Cables Inc. Just like it's elder cousin, the XR4 Host, the Audio XR shares a few similarities, which will be highlighted in this extensive writeup. The design is sleek, compact, which fits in the palm of your hand...