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How to prevent bluetooth device reconnecting?

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zBernie

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I just purchased a Rocketfish bluetooth music receiver (Sounds awesome with aptX). So, using my Nexus 7 tablet, I connect to it, play music, it works great. Then I access bluetooth settings, tap the device, and disconnect. But now, I'm two rooms away and go to watch a youtube video, and my Nexus 7 reconnects to the Rocketfish, and I can hear the choppy audio. Of course it's choppy I'm two rooms away. So I disconnected from the Rocketfish again, but it just keeps reconnecting.

Is there anyway to prevent my Nexus 7 and Moto X from reconnecting to the Rocketfish? This is very annoying. I know I can turn off bluetooth, but that seems like an excessive solution.
 
I don't understand your objection to toggling the BT connection as and when appropriate. It's simple, it works and it saves battery :-)
 
John Bean said:
I don't understand your objection to toggling the BT connection as and when appropriate. It's simple, it works and it saves battery :-)
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My point is the toggle does not work. I toggle off the Rocketfish, but when I go to play music again, it toggles back on automatically, when I did not want it to.

In my opinion if I toggle it off, it should remain off until I toggle it on again.
 
I did. I have the toggles widget on the bottom of my homescreen making it trivially easy to toggle wi-fi, BT, GPS and sync with a single tap, along with screen brightness.

I can't imagine how it could be made easier.
 
John Bean said:
I did. I have the toggles widget on the bottom of my homescreen making it trivially easy to toggle wi-fi, BT, GPS and sync with a single tap, along with screen brightness.

I can't imagine how it could be made easier.
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The rocketfish should work like the Belkin HD -- If I press disconnect, it stays disconnected. If I leave it connected when I leave the room, then return later, THEN it automatically reconnects.

You have to consider the difficulties of multiple people using the same Rocketfish bluetooth receiver. Lets say my wife is listening to the Rocketfish using her tablet. She then shuts off bluetooth when finished. Now she moves to an adjacent room, turns on bluetooth in order to listen using her bluetooth headphones. Now the Rocketfish automatically reconnects to my wife's tablet, even though she's 30 feet away. Now if I want to connect to the Rocketfish, I can not. Now, throw a couple of kids into the mix that also use the Rocketfish, who forget to toggle off their bluetooth, or are using their bluetooth headphones in the proximity of the Rocketfish. This is a problem.
 
Digital Controller said:
Sounds like this app fixes those issues: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.myklos.btautoconnect
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Yes, thanks for the tip, a useful app. I have it installed on my Nexus 7 and Moto X. Unfortunately, my wife has an iPad Air and iPhone, and my son has an iPad III. I was amazed to find that iOS does not provide a way to disconnect from a bluetooth device! I was reading a thread from a couple of years ago with people complaining about this, and Apple still has not addressed this shortcoming. Leave it to Apple to omit what should be basic functionality. Apple does not allow developer access to the core bluetooth internals, so bluetooth control is extremely lacking.

So, my wife can either turn bluetooth on or off. But as soon as she turns it on it reconnects to the Rocketfish, whether she wants it to or not. Bummer.
 
John Bean said:
Doesn't that do the exact opposite of what the OP wants?
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It has the ability to turn off Auto Connect in the app, which I think should fix what is happening with his devices :)

Just because the app name is Bluetooth Auto Connect doesn't mean there isn't more than meets the eye ;)
 
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