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Make it Wireless | Connect Your Devices
There are a lot of products with Bluetooth built-in, yet you can’t fully utilize those products because your machine does not have Bluetooth connectivity. You can now connect Bluetooth enabled devices such as controllers, headphones, speakers, keyboards and mouse, printers, smartphones, tablets and more.
Real Bluetooth 5.0 | BQB Certified
The BT-8500 Bluetooth 5.0 Nano USB Adapter is qualified with BQB certification. The Bluetooth logo is only available for products that passed the Bluetooth qualification process and earned the BQB certification.
Nano Size | World’s Smallest
No matter if you are adding Bluetooth 5 to your desktop or laptop, you can expect to plug and forget, thanks to its ultra-small nano-sized housing.
Bluetooth BLE | Keeping the Energy Consumption Low
Supports Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), meaning that your devices are connected with optimal energy consumption.
Supports Windows and Linux
Supports Windows 8.1/10, Linux: Kernel 2.6.32 - 5.3 or above (support Fedora & Ubuntu only)
Embedded Wireless Adapter Solution for Industrial IoT (IIoT)
Looking to add wireless connectivity to your product, device, or machine? Embedded with Edimax wireless USB adapters, supports various Bluetooth standards, delivers a completely connected, always-on experience for your customers. With more than 30 years of manufacturing integration experience, trust our proven expertise and first-class support to power your IoT application.
R. Guilmette
Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2025
I bought this Bluetooth dongle just to test and see if the built-in bluetooth on the used iPhone that I had bought off that big auction site (you know which one) was working properly. I had to get off my butt, stop procrastinating, and update my installed desktop Ubuntu from 20.xx to 22.xx in order to use this dongle, but doing that wasn't hard. After that I had to install a couple of other things to see if I could play music tracks that I had stored on my iPhone (in iTunes), via Bluetooth, out and into my desktop Ubuntu system and then out to my desktop speakers. (None of this was too awfully hard.) Anyway, it all ended up working perfectly, so I'm happy with my purchase of this item.
Brad
Reviewed in Canada on February 5, 2025
Many BT dongles do not work with Linux but this one was easy plug 'n play on Ubuntu 24.04. It eventually worked on Windows 10 too but it took some futzing around. It seems a driver for a BT dongle I no longer own was "stuck" in Windows but eventually the right driver installed and it now works on Ubuntu and Win. I can share files with other devices and it connects with my BT headset (ear buds and mic) so I can talk over my VOIP phone on my tablet or listen to music.
Mario Chacon
Reviewed in the United States on February 24, 2025
If you're looking for a Bluetooth dongle that works with Debian 12, this one is perfect. It's easy to configure, and the quality is good.
Michael Gentile
Reviewed in the United States on February 22, 2025
Works like a charm great reception
Doug
Reviewed in the United States on February 20, 2025
Worked out of the box with ubuntu 22.04. My old, old laptop went from not being able to connect to some newer bluetooth devices to working perfectly with them. Just had to read up on bluetoothctl to figure out how to manage two controllers.
BrodieRJ
Reviewed in Australia on September 22, 2024
Sucessfully used this to connect 8bitdo Bluetooth controllers in both Linux Mint and Batocera.
Nick
Reviewed in Canada on November 5, 2024
This is a similar dongle to ASUS USB-BT500, both are using rtl8761bu chipset which has excellent Linux support.
Michael S
Reviewed in the United States on November 21, 2024
The ad says it workes with Linxu Mint. And other reviews say that it works with Debain based distros. Well, it "worked" as in in connected to the distro, but it would not connect any devices. I went to the website to get the drivers and the available drivers are ONLY for Ubuntu and Fedora. Returning for a refund.
S. Moon
Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2024
I had a few notebooks and a PC. I live in a studio apartment and I can not have headphones and walk around, the Bluetooth signal breaks up. I got a Mac Mini and with that I can walk all over the place, including go outside, and the signal wouldn't break up. I thought it was Apple magic but nope, just turns out it was the receiver. I got one of these and magically the signal is as good as on my mac mini. I got two of these so far and they work great on Windows and Linux. You just need to make sure you change what the system is using on the wifi card to this receiver. Linux occasionally will switch back to the internal Bluetooth and I need to change it back to this one. No drivers needed, it automatically works. I think windows has the driver also.
Chris Hayes
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2024
Operating System: Ubuntu 24.10 (Kernel 6.11)I was worried this dongle wouldn't work since kernel versions above 5.8 aren't mentioned, but on 6.11 I'm having no issues. I did not install any additional drivers to get the dongle working.My use case - my built-in intel bluetooth module was struggling to keep a connection with my bose earbuds. With this dongle, the connection and range is DRAMATICALLY improved. I thought I would need an antenna to get a decent connection, but this tiny dongle is enough. Before I couldn't stand next to my PC without the bluetooth connection flaking out, now I can walk a good 20 feet away with no connection stuttering.The one challenge if you're in the same situation is dealing with two active bluetooth adapters. I found it easiest to use a bluetooth manager GUI like "Blueman Manager". With that, I was able to "forget" my bluetooth earbuds on the old adapter, and then pair the earbuds to the new adapter.
Myriam
Reviewed in Canada on April 5, 2024
This helped me to use my new headphones with my laptop pc that has a Linux OS (latest Mint Cinnamon version). It works perfectly and now my wireless headphones connect automatically when I turn them on. It was a bit complicated to set up and needed a download from a website, but that only needs to be done once. I would recommend this.
AC
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2022
I use this to stream audio to my TWS headphones so I can listen to music, videos, and audio books while working out or doing projects around the house. I've been using it for about a month now, and I'm pretty satisfied with it.It worked on plug-in with Manjaro KDE, and integrated with the OS without any additional configuration. It reliably auto-connects and the system even routes audio to it while it is connected, and then restores it to my main headphones when it is not.Audio quality is decent, about what you would expect from something like this. Not as good as a direct connection obviously, but for most non-critical listening this is perfectly sufficient. Just make sure your headphones support the higher bitrate codecs - I knew mine didn't, but double check to be sure. I have some Bose Soundsport Free headphones which are vented, which is great because I can hear what's going on around the house, but they don't support any advanced codec at all. So I end up with about a 500ms delay on the audio. That's fine for me - if I'm at my desk, I'm using my main headphones anyway, but just be aware.Range is tricky. With the Soundsports, it's pretty bad, maybe twenty feet in open air, ten feet if there's any obstruction. I have some Sony WF-1000XM4 TWS earbuds and they do better, but only by about 50%. If you are going more than 15ft from the source, you may have issues. However, my system is close to a wireless router and a UPS, so that may be interfering in my case.Broadly, for this price, I'd recommend this. Sure you can look for higher quality transmitters that go for $50-$100, but until you pull the trigger on that, this should serve your purposes fine.
garry
Reviewed in Australia on October 4, 2022
Worked out of the box What more do you need
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