On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Garry Paxinos wrote: > Is there a practical upper limit of the number of devices that can be > bonded to a single computer? > > I am considering reworking the bonding code to use a MySQL DB to store > the list of devices, but was wondering if there was any other limit > (either coding or practical). For example, can a single computer > bond with 1k devices? what about 100K or even 1M ? There is no reason it cannot pair with such a number of devices though I can't think how you will fit them all in your pocket.. ..but bear in mind that it cannot connect with more than 7 in a Bluetooth piconet at any one time. (perhaps with other transports it can do more) and because pairing generally involves human interaction, it is not a frequently occurring event. I suspect the vast majority of usage case is pairing with <10 in the lifetime of the device and that using a MySQL database would be just overkill.. but perhaps there are other, more minimal, data-storage front ends that can be used (cdb?), if you wanted to provide generic access to the information.. regards, iain
