Why are there such idiotic smart TVs that can’t even turn off bluetooth?!

There are at least two such devices in my apartment block and my bluetooth audio transmitter always tries to connect to them instead of my headphones. I have already talked to the people owning those TVs and we tried to disable BT, but it just isn’t possible. This is driving me insane!

  • pgp@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I actually had the reverse problem: some stupid neighbor kept trying to pair something with my smart TV, to the point where I couldn’t watch TV at times, due to this moron’s insistence. I looked in the settings and also found I couldn’t disable Bluetooth, or blacklist devices, so I thought of a simple solution: changing the TV name to “virus”. From that day on, no one tried to pair anything with my TV.

    • Lokoschade@feddit.deEnglish
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      9 months ago

      I did something similar once. I was sitting on the train and had my bluetooth headphones on and someone tried to constantly connect via bluetooth with my phone. The button to agree with that connection was really big in the middle of the screen and just popped up while I was doing something else on my phone typing or whatever and at the end I accidentally agreed to the connection. I instantly turned my bluetooth off and renamed my phone to “Fuck off” worked like a charm.