We added some Bluetooth capability late last night, thinking we could communicate back and forth with the computer in a more leisurely way. There is a fairly simple exchange of credentials in Bluetooth, and some other steps that we have already forgotten in the busy business of running an enterprise like My-Lynx Associates and the myriad details of moving books around the world.

Bluetooth is a short distance radio-communication protocol, with a few setup steps. It is good for a lot of different kind of devices - we see that our software supports phones, digital assistants, microphones (we tested it and it worked), and a lot more besides.

Theoretically.


Bluetooth Logo

Hence our visit to the newly named Bluetooth Inferno, a circle a nefariousness that requires both time and brilliant insight. We have spent the time, we are slightly weary with effort, but we have come up short with our brilliant insight so far, we need some engineering talent.

On the plus side, we have had some initial success with transmitting a signal throughout our headquarters office, but the audio signal, while be transmitted wirelessly to conduct our myriad orders and signals back and forth has frozen the speakers that we are using when Bluetooth equipment is off. So as many of the technical people who work with the computers know: could it be software? Could it be the hardware? Could it be the signal? Could it be Windows? Could it be the Windows default audio settings? Could it be the audio music playing software retaining the settings?

It is just supposed to "revert" to the speakers when we disconnect the device.

We have not discovered why sometimes it reverts and sometimes it does not. So if you have followed our tale of woe so far, we are scouring the device websites, while listening to our piano favorites by Chopin. Unfortunately, we need to use this for long distance Internet communication around the world to our "Associates" via Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP), so a smooth transition between regular speakers and the microphone / headset using Bluetooth is essential. So we have as the 3 Sages of Insanity said in one of their many movies, when in doubt about the operation of a complex system, as their fearless leader, known as "Moe Howard" in his character of a janitor trapped on a rocket ship with his two equally erstwhile companions, being Curly Joe and Larry, (we think, we need to check), his character orders "Do something! Turn dials. Push buttons. Do something!". (That would be Have Rocket, Will Travel). One of the trio has accidentally hit the launch button with a broom handle, and they are launched into another zany adventure.

So we are recreating their marvelous antics by clicking on the seven different services available, restarting Windows, and occasionally we are getting the audio to come on, but we need to reduce the random button pushing to a viable procedure. So, we are in a kind of mid-place in our mood, half-way between listening to beautiful music, but unable to tame the Bluetooth technology at our doorstep, it made us think of an illustration, from a book we listed a couple of nights back.  So, to keep a theme of content to books offered, we present a Doré engraving from one of our Spanish language books that depicts what appears to be a rather irritated Samson pushing at the pillars of an Egyptian building. The pictures are great, it is a big format book with Old Testament verses interspersed with large pictures using Doré's illustrations.