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!

  • SendPicsofSandwiches@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Bluetooth gets a normal plain text device name, and many of then are default. Knowing “Steve’s S20 FE” is near by is more useful, especially when farming that information from tens of thousands of tv’s and cross referencing that with other factors like income demographics for a given area.

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      11 months ago

      Don’t the Bluetooth beacons only see the MAC address unless it’s in discovery mode?

      I don’t know the actual spec, I just thought that’s how it worked.