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    From Bob Latham@3:770/3 to All on Tue Jan 16 10:07:02 2024
    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.

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  • From Marco Moock@3:770/3 to All on Tue Jan 16 14:10:54 2024
    Am 16.01.2024 um 10:07:03 Uhr schrieb Bob Latham:

    Anyone got any suggestions.

    Does rfkill work?

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  • From Knute Johnson@3:770/3 to Bob Latham on Tue Jan 16 08:49:12 2024
    Remove the applet by right clicking on it
    edit /boot/config.txt dtoverlay=disable-bt
    sudo systemctl disable hciuart

    That's it.

    knute...

    On 1/16/24 04:07, Bob Latham wrote:
    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.



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    Knute Johnson

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  • From Bob Latham@3:770/3 to Bob Latham on Tue Jan 16 15:28:46 2024
    In article <5b2392b9e0bob@sick-of-spam.invalid>,
    Bob Latham <bob@sick-of-spam.invalid> wrote:
    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.

    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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