Some TV remotes are now using bluetooth instead of IR, so yeah you can't turn that off without locking yourself out..
this post was submitted on 25 Dec 2023
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It should be legally required that on any system that has settings you should be able to disable wireless stuff.
I won't let my TV access the internet. No good reason for it. If I want spyware I'll be one of the Amazon or Apple spyware modules. At least then I know its spyware that runs well.
That’s cool and all, but that has literally nothing to do with Bluetooth…
It means that the Bluetooth data the TV collects does not get transmitted anywhere. It's better than disabling Bluetooth.
Other than the whole issue of it still trying to connect to devices, or allowing other devices to try to connect to it. Which is what the post is about.
Wait why are complaining about the stupid devices of others instead of your one that doesn't allow you to manage its connections?
I would be furious at my stuff doing stupid shit not that of others.
Yeah at first I thought it was his TV. Why are they even paired to begin with? It's his device doing it, the TVs are just complying.
I've refused to hook my TV up to the internet. Massive bloatware and spyware machine. I bought high end. Samsung 70" top of the line last year. But everything I watch is though a jailbroken 4k firestick or straight up on disc.
It's a pain in the ass to switch inputs. THERES NO INPUT BUTTON. It wants to choose FOR ME what input I'm using based off the most recent input. Lick my balls. I'll switch from the first stick to the Xbox but if the fire stick is still streaming I'll choose the Xbox and it'll switch back to the firestick. Fuck you. I can't even imagine if I let that thing connect to the internet. It'd probably want a huge update, send everything I watch back to hq, and then try to show me ads. Fuck you Koreans.
It's a great tv. Top of the line picture quality. But it's about as good as it gets in this age. If I was more tech savvy I could probably make it better but I'm not.
Samsung's auto input stuff is so frustrating. When I had one I would just plug and unplug into the last input used but even then it would try to detect input for settings I guess and delay me over a minute.
That sounds like an issue with your transmitter, not the TVs. It shouldn't be initiating the pairing process with untrusted devices.
My wife's car disconnects my bt audio like every 5 mins. There are certain intersections where it always connects. I've long suspected its because of other bt devices using the same frequencies. This is on a 2023 ev car using android auto.
My shitty aftermarket bt radio I installed on my 2003 PoS is 100% stable. No problems.
New cars are such fucking garbage.
It might be because right now remotes are Bluetooth due to the microphone
It also just works way better than infrared lights. No need for line of sight or to point it ever so precisely at the receiver
Welcome to late-stage capitalism, where companies sell what you do not want to buy. e.g., no wired connection has ever once had this problem, but they had to sell more thingies, so now everything is bluetooth, whether it should be or not, plus it seems like nobody ever bothered to finish implementing bluetooth - e.g., this exact issue you are having, which surely could be fixed except... why bother, when you (& your neighbors) have already bought all the thingies?
Lol and I can't even get my TVs to output over Bluetooth! Smart TVs are dumb, why build a radio into a thing if I can't connect both ways with it.
Or why build a radio into a TV to listen to music when the stereo system is already during that job?
I mean like the Bluetooth radio, not like a radio tuner. Sorry should've clarified
Just start transmitting some music, it'll get squared away real quick
Most crappy TV's I've had were cheap. YMMV.