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Scott in Kilgore, Texas listens on KTBB and asked: “I’m looking for a Bluetooth transmitter. I would like to be able to transmit a signal over Bluetooth so unlimited users in my venue can connect to the signal and listen to the transmission. Wondering if that is possible and if there’s a transmitter I could purchase to make that happen.”

Scott, you’re looking at the wrong technology. Depending on what you’re looking to do, you may be better off looking into something like the headphones used in silent dance parties and similar events, but those run off of different radio waves, not Bluetooth.

Bluetooth will let you connect a nearly unlimited number of devices, but only in the sense of “adding them to the list of known devices”, as long as your transmitter can store them, the Bluetooth standard won’t argue.

When it comes to live connected devices actually exchanging data with your transmitter, the maximum number set by the standard is reasonable for what Bluetooth does, but it is low. It’s 7 to be precise.

Bluetooth is meant to create point-to-point connections in which devices talk to each other rather than truly broadcast a signal, so it is the wrong technology for what you seem to be trying to do and you will have to look elsewhere if you want it to work well.

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