I really would like to be able to make this work.

At this point, though, anything's worth a try, so long as it's not malware. So, any ideas? I think what I'm looking for is a better driver (although I've searched all over) or a less sketchy, more reliable bluetooth manager than BlueSoleil. Oh, and one other thing I tried: enabling bluetooth collaboration (Device Manager > Network Adapters > Broadcom 802.11n Network Adapter > Advanced > Bluetooth Collaboraion > Enable) worked for some people who wanted to have two bluetooth devices going at the same time, but made no difference for me. The Broadcom driver issue has been discussed by other people trying to do similar things, but it seems that no one has been able to make anything work at all on a Mac except BlueSoleil and the Boot Camp drivers. I tried installing Broadcom drivers, but no luck there either - the installer stalls because it can't find the hardware. I've also tried re-downloading and reinstalling the Boot Camp drivers, but no change. I tried BlueSoleil, but a similar thing happened (I can give more specifics, if it would help anyone familiar with BlueSoleil), and the software seemed pretty sketchy to me, so I uninstalled it. There is nothing that I can do to make the bluetooth module say 'connected' again, though, short of clicking 'remove device' and repeating the process. That's what happens when i turn off my bluetooth mouse: it says 'paired' but not 'connected.' Turn the mouse back on, it says 'connected' again.

That basically means that it COULD talk to it because it knows the passcode, but it doesn't see it anymore. I can pair with it by entering the correct code, and all looks good: the progress bar goes across, then it says 'connected.' Then a few seconds later, it says 'paired' instead of connected. Open PC Settings > PC and Devices > Bluetooth, and it will appear. Then I boot into Windows, and it goes kaput. I know that it will work on my hardware because it works beautifully when I run OSX. The bluetooth module is a pretty common one - the JY-MCU. I am trying to use my internal bluetooth chipset (Broadcom 20702A3 ) to set up a serial connection with a very simple bluetooth device that talks to an arduino. I have a new MBP (non-retina) and I am running Windows 8.1 Pro with Boot Camp. There are several forums that ask this question, but then they just kind of trail off. Okay, so I've searched all over the place and found no actual solutions to my problem.

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