# Add Support for Bluetooth Low Energy 5 (BLE) Adapter TP-Link UB500

**URL:** <https://forums.balena.io/t/add-support-for-bluetooth-low-energy-5-ble-adapter-tp-link-ub500/370773>\
**Category:** balenaOS\
**Tags:** bluetooth\
**Created:** [June 24, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/add-support-for-bluetooth-low-energy-5-ble-adapter-tp-link-ub500/370773 "2024-06-24T14:16:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![atokulus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/balena/user_avatar/forums.balena.io/atokulus/32/9850_2.png) [@atokulus](https://forums.balena.io/u/atokulus)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 2:16pm UTC](https://forums.balena.io/t/add-support-for-bluetooth-low-energy-5-ble-adapter-tp-link-ub500/370773/1 "2024-06-24T14:16:00Z")

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Dear Balena Support  
Your product is quite great, congrats 😄

Yet we are facing some major limitations, regarding state of the art Bluetooth adapters.

It would be great, if you could please patch/update Balena OS for Raspberry Pi 5 to support the Bluetooth Low Energy 5 adapter dongle **TP-Link UB500**.

The dongle seems to be supported for a year now in major Linux distros out-of-the-box (such as Xubuntu), and features higher throughput than BLE 4 adapters like TP-LINK UB400 (which is crucial to our project). There is some forum posts, where support has been added before by building the latest bluetooth driver version (see [[Solved] TP Link UB500 Bluetooth not working - Linux Mint Forums](https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=368114))

As an alternative, we could also patch the kernel drivers ourselves, if you have any suggestions or instructions to do so.

Best regards  
Markus