bluetooth with Sparkfun thing plus ESP32

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Hi, can someone please answer my following queries:

  1. Is Sparkfun thing plus ESP32 WROOM (https://www.sparkfun.com/products/14689 … 1578580090) compatible with a bluetooth module? If yes, kindly share a link or model number of the bluetooth module?

2)Also, how is ESP32 WROOM different than SparkFun RedBoard Qwiic?

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Greetings. Thanks for posting on the SparkFun forums.

1: In theory, any Bluetooth device with a matching protocol should pair with the WROOM, however, we cannot guarantee that any Bluetooth device that share a protocol with the WROOM will be compatible. Apple products don’t like pairing with 3rd party devices, for instance. You could Google “ESP32-WROOM” + whatever device you are trying to pair with to see if folks are successful with paring. Here is the WROOM datasheet and what is says about Bluetooth:

https://cdn.sparkfun.com/assets/learn_t … eet_en.pdf

Bluetooth

Protocols Bluetooth v4.2 BR/EDR and BLE specification

Radio

NZIF receiver with –97 dBm sensitivity

Class-1, class-2 and class-3 transmitter

AFH

Espressif Systems 1 ESP32-WROOM-32 Datasheet V2.7

Audio CVSD and SBC

2: There are plenty of differences between the ESP32 WROOM and Redboard Qwiic. I suggest you study the documents on their respective product pages to understand each product. If you have a specific similar feature that you are curious about, feel free to ask in your reply.

I hope this helps.