[mikem170]

I use a bluetooth usb dongle for audio with my openbsd laptop.

It's very small and has a single button on the end for pairing, something like the creative bt-w3 [1]. You want to avoid something that won't work without windows drivers.

The os sees it as a separate audio device, doesn't care that it is bluetooth, and can be set to switch audio playback between the internal sound and the dongle automagically.

[1] https://xosc.org/bluetooth.html

[guerrilla]

Doesn't that mean that there's always a delay in the audio since it doesn't know to buffer slightly? (I'm not sure how it works on Linux today, but it didn't used to work well a long time ago for that very reason.)

[mikem170]

I assume you were talking about audio/video sync? I used to use mine to mostly listen to music, audio only.

But I still have a creative bt-w2 audio dongle, and was curious, so I gave it a try, using mvp to watch a yt-dlp mp4, showing someone talking on camera. The bluetooth speaker was 3 meters away from my laptop. No tweaks.

It looked good, I was pleasantly surprised. It definitely had better sync than I've seen on some badly compressed cable tv content.

I wasn't familiar with how bluetooth buffering used to be, but I can believe it's caused problems. I've noticed sometimes when people are using bluetooth on their phones.

[guerrilla]

Yes, that's what I meant. Thank you for testing this. I appreciate it. So, Creative bt-w2. Nice to see that Creative's still got the mojo.

[rootnod3]

I am just missing a similar dongle to hook up my ZMK split keyboards to my OpenBSD systems.