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I want to connect a Bluetooth adapter to a milling machine, which has a parallel port that normally goes to a computer via a cable.

I was planning to use a parallel-to-serial converter so that I can connect a USB Bluetooth dongle to the port, but I realized that the Bluetooth dongle requires drivers, meaning that it should be connected to a computer.

So, is there a Bluetooth adapter that I can directly connect to the machine without the need to go through any setup/installation process or one that could be set up from a smartphone? For example, I would like the Bluetooth adapter to be in discoverable mode once connected to the machine, among other things.

Thanks!

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This is not going to work without drivers and a bluetooth stack installed on the milling machine. Even if you get around the drivers part for the dongle and succeed at paralel->serial->BT you will still need to install software. – Hennes Feb 4 at 14:41
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We need to know what operating system exactly we are talking about. I am asking because "Plug and Play" is a Windows term it doesn't really exist in the Linux/Unix world. – Ramhound Feb 4 at 15:33

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