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
    69·
    6 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.

    • Decoy321@lemmy.worldEnglish
      314·
      6 months ago

      I actually had a similar situation. I found out I had a neighbor stealing my wifi a few years ago because of BT shenanigans.

      I gave the guest wifi pw to the previous neighbor, who must’ve written it down somewhere. The new neighbor was a douche who kept piggybacking off of it to watch stuff with his shitty little kid, so I’d occasionally get notifications on my network. When I confronted him about it, he got belligerent and threatened violence.

      So I paired to his device and blasted porn at full volume.

    • metaStatic@kbin.social
      71·
      6 months ago

      I feel stupid for never having looked into changing Bluetooth device names but it’s clearly not easy or I’d be naming all the Bluetooth shit I own crazy stuff.