Plantronics Pulsar 590 series User manual

Pairing the Plantronics Pulsar 590 Headset with the
Anycom 200/250 USB Bluetooth Dongle
These instructions are for Windows XP using the Anycom 200/250 dongles and
were developed using:
Anycom software (beta release used with this instruction) available at
anycom.com. Posted in “Add/remove programs”:
The Plantronics Pulsar 590 v4.5 as of March 2, 2006,

Pairing the Plantronics Pulsar 590 Headset with the
Anycom 200/250 USB Bluetooth dongle
Configuring the PC Bluetooth:
If the “B” in the BT icon (located in the system tray) is red , the BT dongle
needs to be started: right click on the icon, left click to “Start the Bluetooth
Device”
The “B” in the BT icon (located in the system tray) should be white , showing
that the device is “started
Click on Bluetooth icon and left click on “Bluetooth Setup Wizard”

Pairing the Plantronics Pulsar 590 Headset with the
Anycom 200/250 USB Bluetooth dongle
Choose “I know the service that I want to use...”
Choose the “Headset” (A2DP is not listed explicitly)

Pairing the Plantronics Pulsar 590 Headset with the
Anycom 200/250 USB Bluetooth dongle
Put the Pulsar590 in pairing mode (switch on while pressing the talk button at
the same time until flashing red/blue)
The system will search for your headset (choosing “show audio devices” limits
your search so that you don’t see other bluetooth devices)
Select your headset (see below) and click Next
Enter the “passkey” (see below) of four zeroes: 0000 Click “pair now”

Pairing the Plantronics Pulsar 590 Headset with the
Anycom 200/250 USB Bluetooth dongle
Click “Finish”
Click “OK”

Pairing the Plantronics Pulsar 590 Headset with the
Anycom 200/250 USB Bluetooth dongle
The icon in the tray will now have a green “B” (below) meaning that there is a
bluetooth connection
Double click on the green icon in your tray to see your connection (connected as
“Stereo Headphones below)
To get the audio stream started:
1. right click > disconnect
2. start music streaming, e.g. media player
3. right click > connect
You should be streaming in stereo now!

Pairing the Plantronics Pulsar 590 Headset with the
Anycom 200/250 USB Bluetooth dongle
Some notes...
Restoring a connection
(You don’t need to go through “pairing” again unless you delete the pairing or
want to use a different headset.)
If you dropped your Bluetooth connection because:
a. you did a “stop” of the dongle (right click and stop), or
b. powered your headset off, or
c. dropped your connection by going out of range (you walked to far away from
your PC)
You can reconnect the headset by doing the following:
- make sure the dongle is powered on: right click BT icon in tray and
“start”
- make sure the headset is powered on: switch headset power on
- make sure you are streaming music
- from “Entire Bluetooth Neighborhood”, right click the 590Plantronics
icon, choose connect stereo headphones
- you should be streaming music now!
Tips
1. If the icon in “Entire Bluetooth Neighborhood” shows that you are connected
but there is no audio, momentary audio, or poor audio, make sure that you are
streaming audio, i.e., a media player is playing music. Right click the headset
icon and click “Disconnect Stereo Headphones” and
then right click again, but choose “Reconnect Stereo Headphones” to restore a
good audio connection.
2. To switch between the audio profile (A2DP for stereo music) and the headset
profile (HSP, e.g., for Skype w/ microphone) it is a 2 step process:

Pairing the Plantronics Pulsar 590 Headset with the
Anycom 200/250 USB Bluetooth dongle
Using the headset icon,
a. disconnect from the profile that is in use
b. reconnect with the desired profile
3. When connecting via the “headset profile”, you will sometimes receive a
visual and/or audio prompt (ringing) that you must answer to complete the
connection.
Problem not yet understood
2. Why is the audio connection unusable if the headset is connected but there is
not a music player running?