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Macally Buewave Wireless Headphones passkey

Dec 30, 2008 7:17AM PST

I have a Macally Bluewave Wireless Headphone that I would like to use with my metal detector. Since the original transmitter is broken and it is not really very durrable. I would like to purchase a generic replacement to use with the headphones. Almost every one that I have looked at requires that the headphones be compatible with either a 0000 or 1234 passkey. I have no idea what the passkey of these headphones is.

Does anyone know what the passkey is for these headphones?

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I don't own the macally
Dec 30, 2008 11:33AM PST

But they are spot on. The common code is as they say.

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Ooops I forgot.
Dec 30, 2008 11:35AM PST

You can't use any old bluetooth dongle and stack. Stereo Bluetooth takes a very recent incarnation of the "stack." You can research this too so I'll leave it here.

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Macally Buewave Wireless Headphones passkey
Dec 30, 2008 9:01PM PST

Since my original post I have managed to contact Macally's tech section and they said to try 0000. The didn't say definitively that this was the code, only to try it.

What do you mean by common code?

I did a little research on Bluetooth stack and most of what I found revolves around pairing with computers and/or phones. I could not find anything with respect to audio headphones and audio devices. Almost everything I found seemed to be requirement of software/hardware. Paring headphones with audio devices doesn't generally require a passkey entry, it seems to be automatic.

Hence I have no idea whether or not there is or there could be any kind stack issue with these head phones.

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Common code (or passkey) is 0000, 1234
Dec 30, 2008 10:39PM PST

The reason I note the stack is that I write industrial device setup software for PDAs and some Cell Phones. We now have a bluetooth adapter and the issues of bluetooth are now part of my knowledge base.

If it works, fine but since you have stereo bluetooth then the old "stack" (software that runs on the host interface) didn't do stereo till recently.

I can't be your learning resource or book. I can share what I've run into and what to research. But the bottom line is you'll have to try it out and see if it works.
Bob

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Macally Bluewave Wireless Headphones passkey
Dec 31, 2008 4:18AM PST

Thanks for the info and helping me get pointed in the right direction.

I retired about two years ago from a Technical Specialist position where I wrote electrical technical "how-to" documents. Bluetooth technology is a new area for me and I am basicly just a "User".

I was just hoping to save a couple of dollars by identifying the technical Bluetooth characteristics of my headphones before I spend the bucks to buy a new replacement transmitter/dongle.

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Here it is.
Dec 31, 2008 4:26AM PST

The word is A2DP.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2DP#Advanced_Audio_Distribution_Profile_.28A2DP.29 covers this in what might be an end user writing level. It's important to know about this as you connect stereo devices over bluetooth.

Your common cell phone, Metal Detector, and many other devices could get along fine with the precursors to A2DP such as HSP, HFP and AVRCP.

All the alphabet soup does not help here to tell if this works with that.

I apologize for no one in the land of Bluetooth developers!
Bob