Disable Bluetooth

Jan 16, 2024 Last reply: 2 years ago 3 Replies

Sending Bluetooth audio to my pi music players gives a very, very distorted sound and I don't like the idea anyway, I want to disable it.



On-line reading says I should...



edit /boot/config.txt Add the line: dtoverlay=disable-bt save reboot.



It doesn't have any effect at all. Bluetooth is still advertised to devices and it still plays, still badly distorted.



If you do the same thing for the wifi with: dtoverlay=disable-wifi



That does work absolutely fine.



This is using a pi3B Raspberry Pi OS Lite Release date: December 11th 2023 System: 32-bit Kernel version: 6.1 Debian version: 12 (bookworm)


Anyone got any suggestions.


Thanks.



Bob.


Am 16.01.2024 um 10:07:03 Uhr schrieb Bob Latham:

Does rfkill work?

Remove the applet by right clicking on it edit /boot/config.txt dtoverlay=disable-bt sudo systemctl disable hciuart

That's it.

knute...

Sorry guys and everyone. I now know what this is.

It's actually airplay not bluetooth as such. An installed application (MediaPlayer) provides airplay, I'd never spotted that before. The iPad shows airplay and bluetooth as much the same thing and it led me astray.

Thanks and sorry.

Bob.

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