Dumb Neighbours+Bluetooth=bad

mistersprinkles

mistersprinkles

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Four times now I have had neighbours who clearly shouldn't own any kind of electronics connect to my TV and soundbar via bluetooth and play their horrible music. Once this happened at 3am. It happened just now as I was playing Xbox.

I have changed my SSID for my Wifi to "Who keeps bluetoothing my speakers" and I have tracked down one culprit, the man who lives in the unit below me (I live in a condo building). I spoke to him just now and he confirmed that it was him that connected to my soundbar about 30 minutes ago. He says that is the first time he has ever used bluetooth in his life though, which means that the other times have been other neighbours.

Is there a way to password lock my bluetooth devices? If there isn't, there definitely should be. This is completely ridiculous.

Any advice on how to deal with these neophyte neanderthals would be appreciated.

Thanks
 
Your devices shouldn't accept connections from new devices unless they are in a pairing mode. If they're just sat around accepting inbound pairing requests all day long then I'd consider them to be broken.
 
Caged said:
Your devices shouldn't accept connections from new devices unless they are in a pairing mode. If they're just sat around accepting inbound pairing requests all day long then I'd consider them to be broken.
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What he said.

Why are they pairing with the speakers at all? I'd demand my money back.
 
lol it looks like there's no pairing mode and it just goes into pairing mode whenever BT is selected as the input and there's nothing else connected to it. That's awful.
 
I assume the manufacturer just bought an off-the-shelf Bluetooth audio module and has no way of interfacing with it, so it just sits accepting pairing requests all day long.
 
If the device is FCC certified then there's not much you can do about it.

"this device must accept any interference received, including interference that may cause undesired operation."

You will need to put a layer of tin foil under your carpet/floorboards.
 
I keep managing to "cast" to someone else's sky thing - because I can never remember which one ours is. Whether it actually manages to display on their TV I don't know but no one has managed to cast to ours yet.
 
To be honest i'd not say they were stupid, if I was sitting next door to you and found a device to connect to i'd certainly do it :D
 
Might not work, but I wouldn't try and connect to something like this.

Change SSID to MI5 IP THEFT SURVALANCE AND COMLPIANCE ENFORCEMENT UK AREA CODE(020)
Adjust to Country and area you live in to something similar.

I can do the same (but I don't its illegal) with my SkyHd box, there are two unlocked Bt and TalkTalk accounts in the list of networks that I could connect to and use.
Not sure, but I think it just means I can use their internet to download onto my Skybox.
 
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