Behringer Flow 8 Mixer and BandHelper MIDI

[Turnaround]

I am considering purchase of the Behringer Flow 8 mixer.  I would sure like to be able to control the mixer from within BandHelper.  My hope is to be able to send presets to the mixer when I select a song and to do it wirelessly.  Since the mixer will respond to midi messages, it seems that this is an obvious way to do this.

But though the mixer will respond to midi signals through its USB port, it does not recognize midi over bluetooth, only its own app over bluetooth.

To overcome this issue I am hoping to use a bluetooth dongle in the the USB port of the Flow 8 rather than a USB cable from my iPad.  BandHelper will send the midi commands over bluetooth from the iPad to the dongle in the mixer's USB port.  I'm not sure this will work.  Has anyone tried it?

[arlo]

Hopefully someone has first-hand experience with this. Otherwise, my guess is that this would work if the Bluetooth dongle is a MIDI interface, like this:

https://www.cme-pro.com/product/widi-bud-pro/

But not if it's a generic Bluetooth dongle like this:

https://www.amazon.com/TP-Link-Bluetooth-Receiver-Controllers-UB400/

You could contact CME and Behringer to get their advice.

[Turnaround]

I'm not sure why I would need a specialized bluetooth dongle for midi.  The Behringer accepts a midi connection through its USB port using a USB B-type cable.  Wouldn't a standard USB dongle with a type A to B adapter be the wireless equivalent?

[Turnaround]

Apparently the Flow 8 does not support a USB dongle on the USB port.  It doesn't have the necessary communication protocol.

[arlo]

If the Behringer app can respond to incoming MIDI on a virtual port and forward it to the mixer over Bluetooth, then you could send the MIDI messages from BandHelper and they would go through the Behringer app and on to the mixer. BandHelper sends to all ports by default, so the Behringer app could listen on its own virtual port or on the network session.