Set a personal area network for my Parrot Minidrone

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I brought a rolling spider minidrone and a tp-link bluetooth 4.0 and wish to build a personal network with the drone and my PC. However, when I followed the steps in https://uk.mathworks.com/help/supportpkg/parrot/ug/connect-parrot-rs-minidrone-to-computer-using-bluetooth.html I found that:
  1. My minidrone cannot be found by the installed bluetooth driver but can be found by my original bluetooth device on my PC (which appears as Bluetooth Device (RFCOMM Protocol TDI))
  2. When I use the tp-link drive to connect a portal earphone (which is the same type with the minidrone accroding to the support tutorial), I found that that there is no option as 'Personal Area Networking', although it should be shown according to tutorial page below.
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Therefore I have three questions:
  1. What could be the possible reason that my bluetooth adaptor failed to connect the minidrone?
  2. Does that mean the tp-link bluetooth adaptor has no function as building a Personal Area Network at all?
  3. If it does is it possible for me to download another driver that meet the requirement?
Also, my bluetooth device in my PC certainly will not be able to do the job because when I click the connected minidrone there is no option as building Personal Area Network either.

Answers (1)

Deep Parikh
Deep Parikh on 21 Oct 2019
  1. Usually, when there are strong bluettoth devices nearby, the bluetooth adaptor failes to detect a minidrone in such situations.
  2. It is mentioned in the documentation that, to connect with parrot minidrones we must have an adapter which uses CSR bluetooth stack. It appears that the tp-link dongle that you are referring is not using CSR bluetooth stack.
  3. Since the CSR bluetooth stack is depicted by the hardware chip, simply changing the driver should not meet the requirement.

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