Hi
First sorry if this is a duplicate post, I had a search but I wasn't sure what keywords people would use. If it is a duplicate please let me know and I can delete.
I would love the WiFi access points (cAP ac, wAP ac etc) to have a bluetooth radio built in for a few reasons
1. Sniffing for bluetooth devices close by for presence detection, like listening for WiFi probes and beacons.
2. Ability to broadcast a bluetooth becon with a custom UUID e.g. so that a device could know which room it is in. Taking this to a more extreme examples would be to (a) enable Apple/Google exposure notifications where the AP represents a store/location instead of a person (which the phone represents), or (b) create a bridge for devices like AirTags to bridge traffic from Bluetooth to the Internet.
3. Ideally using a chipset that supports Bluetooth 5 BLE Coded PHY to support short and long range, low energy comms.
I have uses for both radio types so it would save having a Bluetooth dedicated AP. I use bluetooth for low energy devices that want to wake transmit and get back to sleep quickly.
Ideally this would be a factory option that I could buy from Mikrotik (a feature request), but I'm also interested if anyone has customised their Mikrotik AP's like this?
Thanks,
MC