China's homebrew Bluetooth alternative is on the march

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6 points·thunderbong··5 comments

So far this is incredible and unique tech that we can control multiple devices with single remote.. And also by giving voice commands and Bluetooth technology..became so advanced..

So this is amazing tech so far but the main twist we already know .if we take the past or history china is very good at surveillance and taking data without permission. So this might be a critic or chinese strategy to capture peoples data and know about them.

>is very good at surveillance

As if all the world's data aren't in some vaults in NSA or something, and this has been going on for half a century or so?

So.. how does this differ from the Harmony programmable remote I got, which seemed to work nicely with my existing home devices?

Does anyone have some sort of technical outline of the technology used here. Everything I have found is a bit hand wavy.

Also known as SparkLink, Nearlink and Greentooth. The same word in (one of?) its Chinese names can be translated into "spark", "flash" and "blitz" so there could be even more English translations out there.

There is a Wikipedia article on "Nearlink" [0] which supposedly is Huawei's brand name for it.

There seems to exist an official site for "SparkLink" [1] but non-Chinese language content on that site is sparse, and what downloads are available require registration.

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NearLink

1: https://www.sparklink.org.cn/

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