WJN78 Posted June 7, 2017 Share Posted June 7, 2017 There are situations where a Laptop and a Desktop may not be on the same network for various reasons. It would be nice to allow synergy to communicate over BlueTooth. For example I work in a secured facility and I bring my personal laptop to the office but it is not allowed and would not connect over the LAN, its allowed on the personal device network but that network is isolated. So if I used Bluetooth then I could leverage the keyboard/mouse functionality of Synergy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samuel Tønnessen Posted June 20, 2017 Share Posted June 20, 2017 Assuming you're on Windows 10 (don't know how this translates to other versions or OSes), right click the Bluetooth tray icon, choose "Join a Personal Area Network", right click the machine you want to connect to, hover "Connect using >" and click "Direct connection". This should accomplish your goal by creating a local network using Bluetooth. Mind updating me how well this works out? I'm curious, considering how low bandwidth Bluetooth yields. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danimal Posted August 2, 2017 Share Posted August 2, 2017 I would also be interested in bluetooth, but to be able to connect to alternate devices (Android TV). I saw a similar software offers this (http://www.acrosscenter.com/), although I have not tried it. Maybe this is something Synergy can bring over - would be a great addition, and would open it to maybe more clients. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post SimonAde Posted September 13, 2017 Popular Post Share Posted September 13, 2017 Hi there Samuel Tønnessen. I just wanted to give you an update on your advice re Bluetooth personal area network as I had a similar issue of 2 devices at work... one 'non-work' and one 'work' device on different networks. I have followed your advice and it works !! Thank you very much indeed. I have synergy running and connected via the Bluetooth PAN and its brilliant. Actually feels a bit quicker than on my previous works wifi. Simon 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
carbonatd Posted April 12, 2018 Share Posted April 12, 2018 Hi, can you please tell me what version of Synergy you are running? I have a BT PAN established between my two machines, one is on a wired work domain, the other is a personal laptop on unsecured guest wifi, both are running Win 10 and Synergy 2.0.9. Synergy sees the two machines, but I cannot share mouse/kb functions between the two devices. Is there some setting I need to configure to allow Synergy to use the BT connection? Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchaud Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Has anyone been able to get this to work on a MAC? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rchaud Posted October 31, 2019 Share Posted October 31, 2019 Has anyone been able to get this to work on a MAC? I have the same situation with 2 macbooks on different networks (work and guest) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alan Tsui Posted November 11, 2020 Share Posted November 11, 2020 +1 Synergy over Bluetooth. I have 1 Mac in isolated network (static route and split tunnel not allowed) and 1 Mac in normal network. Quick fix: Use 2 ethernet adopters on both Mac and get them directly connected but this only works for 2 hosts. Tried Across but I hate subscription software, it should work. Tried Typeeto it works but only for keyboard, mouse is not included. Aten CS533 may be easier but it's hardware solution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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