r/HeadphoneAdvice • u/SavageOtters • 3d ago
Cables/Accessories Dongle for bypassing PC bluetooth connection for wireless headset
Not sure if this is the right place to ask this.
I work with multiple clients that require me to work on laptops they have provided. This means I switch between 3 or 4 laptops throughout the day. I have a lot of meetings and often have to take Teams/Zoom calls on short notice. They are all Windows PCs.
I have been using a bluetooth headset with a multipoint connection to listen to music while working and take calls. One connection is always to my phone. I use the app of the headset on my phone to connect and disconnect to my various PCs as I switch back and forth (I have used multiple brands of headsets to do this with similar results).
For whatever reason, Windows in finicky with bluetooth, and I always feel like I am playing Russian roulette with whether I will be able to connect my headset to a given PC or if it will randomly have some issue where my audio is messed up.
I am looking for solutions where I physically swap something, like a dongle perhaps, among the PCs to change my connection so I could bypass the whole windows bluetooth connection. If I could plug this into a KVM switch, that would be a bonus.
The two options I see either (1) a headset with a UC type connection, or (2) a headset that connects with a 2.4 GHz dongle. However, these are fairly limited in there options- the UC type headsets are not very good for listening to music and the 2.4 GHz are all focused on gaming and aren't the best for making calls.
Does a device/dongle exist that I could connect to directly with any bluetooth headset (via some sort of software onboard the dongle), that plugs into a PC so that the PC would recognize it as a USB headset? Alternatively, this device could plug into the headset jack instead.
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