Bluetooth pairing not possible

web setup runs on a Windows 10/64 machine. A TP Link Bluetooth LE able dongle (type UB400) is attached to the computer via USB, it is shown as working in the hardware manager, I am able to use it to connect to e.g. a bluetooth LE headphone (and other devices such as Sphero robots) without any problems, so I think I have established that the dongle in fact does work.

However, I am stuck at "pair with Vector", that does not work with seven different Vectors I tried. I do not get any error or status message whatsoever when trying to pair. I tried in multiple variations for quite some time now with Vectors 2 m away or directly in front of the dongle.

Nothing seems to get this working.

Basically I do not understand why you use Bluetooth at all. Nearly no desktop computer comes with Bluetooth . It should have been quite sufficient to just enter the robots serial to connect to him on a local network just as e.g. Vector Explorer does. I see abolutely no reason to use this superfluous connection method. I would suggest for further versions to just drop Bluetooth connection and use some other, simpler means that will actually work.

Plus: managing a lot of robots as in my case is a pain, since I need to reconnect and relogin every time. In my opinion this needs to be simplified quite a lot to make it user friendly.