Bluetooth auto connector how to#
Bluetooth auto connector drivers#
Bluetooth auto connector driver#

It would be great if I could just load up the Devices App and double click on my device to reconnect it, but double click doesn’t do anything.

Bluetooth auto connector how to#

How to Reconnect the Device to Your Computer Click “Add a device” and your device will be added. You can get there by double clicking the Bluetooth icon in your system tray or by hitting Windows key and then typing in “devices” and click on Settings then click on Devices.ģ. For the RF-MAB2, you just need to hold down the button that has the icon of an old school phone for about 6 seconds.Ģ. Read the documentation for the device to find out how to do this. Put the Bluetooth device in pairing mode. How to Connect the Device to Your Computerġ. With this approach you need to manually remove and then re-add the device every time you want to connect it. There will be a series of beeps and then your device will be connected Right click on your device and click Control. Click on the icon in your taskbar that you created above.

Read the documentation for the device to find out How to do this. Create a Shortcut to “Devices and Printers” by following the steps on this page: How to Create a “Devices and Printers” Shortcut in Windows 7ġ. This will allow you to quickly launch into “Devices and Printers” on your computer.ġ. Follow the “How to Connect the Device to Your Computer” section under Option 2 below to establish your initial connection. There is a little bit of initial setup, but it is worth it over time. It still isn’t very fast, but it is faster than Option 2 because it doesn’t require you to add and remove the device every time you want to connect it.

Bluetooth auto connector driver#

Option 1 – Control Panel & the Bluetooth Driver My PC uses the Broadcom Bluetooth stack ( Download) so your experience will be different if you have a different stack, but it should pretty similar. If you haven’t done so already then you should find out who manufacture’s your Bluetooth stack and get their Windows 8 drivers. But I will show you the only two options I discovered.

The short answer to this post is that there isn’t a way to quickly connect a Bluetooth device in Windows 8.

I am discussing the issue with the Bluetooth team and they are working on getting this into their backlog. It would be great if I could just double click on a device that is already paired to reestablish the connection, but that isn’t supported for now. The Windows 8 Devices App only allows you to Add and Remove the device. As I mentioned in my “ How to Quickly Connect a Bluetooth Device to a Windows 7 Machine” post, it wasn’t simple to figure out how to do that in Windows 7 and it’s even harder in Windows 8.

Bluetooth auto connector drivers#

The trouble comes when you need to connect and disconnect from multiple devices – Windows depends on third party drivers to help and the result is a non-intuitive experience. Connecting and disconnecting Bluetooth devices to one machine is easy, just turn it on and off. I connect and disconnect my RocketFish Bluetooth Headset (RF-MAB2) from my phone and laptop all day long.