Bluetooth Adapter For Mac



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There are cases when you need to determine the Bluetooth MAC Address of your Windows PC or tablet.
Bluetooth Address is usually displayed in the form of 12 hexadecimalal digits.

Finding Bluetooth MAC Address from the command line. The btinfo command displays a lot of information about your bluetooth adapter, including it's MAC Address. To display only the Bluetooth MAC Address run btinfo with the '-a' switch. Btinfo is not available on your system out of the box. It's a part of the freeware Bluetooth command line tools suite.

  1. If you hold down the Option key while clicking on the Bluetooth menu icon, the MAC address of the adapter should be different. You can also verify in System Profiler. You'll know it's working if any existing pairings break. I've found that a BT 4.0 adapter is working better than the built-in adapter in my 2010-era Macbook.
  2. Select 'Bluetooth Radio' in the Devices list and click 'Properties'. In the 'Bluetooth Radio Properties' form go to 'Advanced' tab. Note the Manufacturer Id. If it is 10 (CSR) or 15 (Broadcom) then your bluetooth adapter is supported and you may try to change it's bluetooth address using Bluetooth MAC Address Changer.
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Two different methods to obtain this information are presented below. Use the method that is more appropriate in your situation.

Finding Bluetooth MAC Address from the GUI

1. Click the Bluetooth icon in the system tray and select 'Open Settings'.

2. In the 'Bluetooth Settings' form go to 'Hardware tab'.

3. Select 'Bluetooth Radio' in the Devices list and click 'Properties'.

4. In the 'Bluetooth Radio Properties' form go to 'Advanced' tab.
The Bluetooth MAC Address is displayed in the 'Address' line.

The following video shows the process of finding out Bluetooth Address in Windows 10

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Finding Bluetooth MAC Address from the command line

The btinfo command displays a lot of information about your bluetooth adapter, including it's MAC Address.

To display only the Bluetooth MAC Address run btinfo with the '-a' switch.

btinfo is not available on your system out of the box. It's a part of the freeware Bluetooth command line tools suite.

This worked for me; it might not work for you. Remember I’m just same random guy on the internet so I take no responsibility for anything that happens to your machine. Okay?

The Problem

As yet (5th Aug 2015) there’s no official support from Apple for Windows 10 running through Boot Camp. So, when I upgraded from Windows 8.1 to 10, I was expecting there to be a couple of issues. One of these was a lack of Bluetooth. Also getting the fn key working.

But, it turns out to be easy to fix.

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Get the Driver

The driver for Windows 8.1 works with 10, so you just need to grab that.

Go to https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204048 and find your machine in the list. You want to look for the zip file download of the Boot Camp Assistant software.

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For me, it was this one:

Download that file (it’s pretty big – 882Mb for my one) and unzip that once done.

Install the Driver

Inside the unpacked folder, go into the BootCamp folder and then into the $WinPEDriver$ folder under that.

The driver needs to be installed via device manager so just confirm that the AppleBluetoothBroadcom64 folder is there for now.

In Windows, open up device manager (the easiest way to do this is just hit the Windows key and type ‘device manager’ – it’ll be the first result).

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Expand other devices and you should see an unknown device.

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Right click it and select Update driver software.

Chose the second option on the pop up to browse your computer for the driver software.

Browse to the $WinPEDriver$ from your downloads and select that. Make sure Include subfolders is checked and then click Next and Windows will install the Bluetooth driver for your Mac Book.