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ElyDave

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New BT Speaker not working with laptop
« on: 05 December, 2016, 04:07:42 pm »
When I say not working,
1) it's my work laptop (which has a high degree of being nailed down)
2) it's connecting and seems to be recognised, but I can't get music out of it and I can't get Lync to recognise it as a phone speaker/mike

Help!
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ElyDave

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Re: New Blue Tooth Speaker not working with laptop
« Reply #1 on: 05 December, 2016, 11:39:42 pm »
 Clarified heading
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PaulF

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Re: New BT Speaker not working with laptop
« Reply #2 on: 06 December, 2016, 06:28:14 am »
What operating system are you running?
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ElyDave

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Re: New BT Speaker not working with laptop
« Reply #3 on: 06 December, 2016, 06:38:59 am »
That one is Win 7.

Working absolutely fine with blackberry, Android tablet and win 10 machine
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PaulF

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Re: New BT Speaker not working with laptop
« Reply #4 on: 06 December, 2016, 07:09:31 am »
in Control Panel>Sounds you should see the speaker listed. You need to select that one as the output option.

Unfortunately I left my Bluetooth speaker at home* so can't give more detail.

First World problem: which means I have to listen to the radio rather than my music
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ElyDave

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Re: New BT Speaker not working with laptop
« Reply #5 on: 06 December, 2016, 08:14:43 am »
It's not listed for some reason.  I can only imagine that it's the settings our IT people have used, they are paranoid about wireless devices
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ian

Re: New BT Speaker not working with laptop
« Reply #6 on: 06 December, 2016, 08:40:59 am »
For reasons opaque to me, the laptops issued by our mothership had no Bluetooth. Probably fear of pirates.

Win7 didn't go out of its way to make this obvious. It really didn't.
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ElyDave

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Re: New BT Speaker not working with laptop
« Reply #7 on: 06 December, 2016, 09:33:11 am »
This is the really odd thing, it's listed in devices, connects etc, I just can't select it for use.
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PaulF

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Re: New BT Speaker not working with laptop
« Reply #8 on: 06 December, 2016, 05:42:15 pm »
Can you delete it from the list of devices and add it back again!
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ElyDave

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Re: New BT Speaker not working with laptop
« Reply #9 on: 10 December, 2016, 06:38:12 pm »
Tried that, no joy, last resort, ask our it department
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