G+_George Kozi Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Here is a question for you geekozoids: I got a fairly good Philips bluetooth pair of headphones. When I walk to the far end of the garden, or to the mailbox wearing them, the audio starts to break up... but only in the summer. When (like now) I do it in the freezing cold, no audio breakage happens. So... is bluetooth influenced by air temperature somehow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Rich Tosi (BaronWastela Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Bluetooth needs line of sight. If there are plants that get in the way during the summer that are now gone that could explain it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted December 5, 2016 Author Share Posted December 5, 2016 That's not it. All the bushes in my garden apre perennials, and about waist high. Someone suggested elsewhere that the air humidity might play a role... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Eng. Jorge Santana Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Could be just interference with more devices using Bluetooth from your neighbors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_John Mink Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Also worth noting, electronic components in both your phone and your headset (resistors, transistors, inductors, and so on) are temperature dependent..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Chris Holt Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Temperature is unlikely. Humidity might have more of a chance, assuming all else is the same. Are you saying the transmitter is in your house, or on your person? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted December 5, 2016 Author Share Posted December 5, 2016 the transmitter is on the PC in the house. That's why I thought it must be the way stuff is propagating through different types of air... warm, cold, dry, humid etc. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_John Mink Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 Because I haven't made this post long enough already (and I'm bad at thinking of things all at once), it could also be "clutter" the, surprisingly, technical term for any physical object that's in the way. So it could be the way you move stuff around in your house, even if you don't realize it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_George Kozi Posted December 5, 2016 Author Share Posted December 5, 2016 Clutter is a good definition for the way I move stuff around the house... :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G+_Alex Killby Posted December 6, 2016 Share Posted December 6, 2016 Interference for sure. Bluetooth works on 2.4ghz spectrum. Shared with WiFi, portable phones, microwaves and a lot more. Bluetooth is relatively low power and that distance sounds about right for HD audio to start cutting out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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