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Unfortunately that list only contains minor brands which don't seem to be sold here in Finland and shipping costs are huge. For example cheapest price I could find for that "Plugable USB-BT4LE" was around 50 € when shipping+customs is included.
@fanoush Thanks, that seems to ship to Finland with low cost (just has 5 weeks shipping time).
malaire
Yes, just to back up what @fanoush says:
I develop on a Linux desktop all day every day, and I use a £5 BLE dongle and it works great. There's a list of modules I personally tested at http://www.espruino.com/Quick+Start+BLE#requirements
With a reasonably up to date distro it should just work out the box (although you still have to enable an option in Chrome to enable it).
But yes, the relay is an option too. It's not quite as nice to use, but it's a great way to get things working.