nyanbinary14h ago
rubenwardy

I want the ability to manually control when my laptop connects to my bluetooth speaker - so disabling autoconnect. I usually play music from my phone so the laptop autoconnecting can result in it taking over the phone.

The Internet says the way to do this is to "Untrust" the speaker, but then I get this dialog like 5-10 times after turning on the speaker, it's incredibly annoying to have to keep pressing deny.

Any ideas how to stop this? #Linux #EndeavourOS #ArchLinux

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Show threadrubenwardy14h ago
I use a bluetooth keyboard and mouse so turning off bluetooth on my laptop isn't an option
Show threadcambria9h ago
@rubenwardy
Using bluetoothctl you can turn off either pairable or discoverable. I think this is what I did a while ago on my laptop. I don't get random connection requests but my mouse is fine.
Show threadCaroline Bell 14h ago

@rubenwardy
I don't think you can, unless you go hunting for a bug and fix it in your driver itself. Your device is spamming connections in case they get dropped and your computer, for one reason or another, is just displaying all of them. The GUI software could technically ignore repeated signals too, I'd imagine it's just safer to not do so.

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Show threadnyanbinary14h ago
@[email protected] if you find out lmk, its annoying me but not enough to actually find a solution 
Show threadOblomov13h ago
@rubenwardy the only solution I can think of would be to trust on connection / untrust on disconnection, but I don't know if there's a way to automate that