I have one bluetooth device that I connect to my TV that just captures anything it's ever been connected to, no matter where it is in the house. No amount of unpairing or repairing can overcome it. It's actually kind of impressive.
Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
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Re: Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
#302Earlier quoted context omitted.
> I have to go round all of my devices and disable the bluetooth on them, because some other device is connected too Sigh. If only there was some kind of mechanism to indicate physically which of the devices you want the sound to come from. A thin string of sorts, that you could attach easily to both devices to indicate that these two are to be connected. But we can only dream...
As long as you don't have to keep the string connected to use the device after pairing, I think that's a good idea.
Isn't that essentially NFC pairing? I've had considerably better luck with NFC technology as a whole than with bluetooth.
Re: Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
#303My car (Lexus) and my iPhone X: The car detects iPhone presence, like, 50% of the time. If it does detect it, it shows me a couple of half-naked shaved guys hugging each other and begins playing "Songs of Innocence" the moment I turn the ignition on. I tried deleting this song from the iPhone, but it auto-magically restores itself somehow, as if it is in the telephone's firmware. The image of men hugging in shade is…
I thought your anecdote was satire until the very last word. That was a great ride.
Re: Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
#304Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/2055/
Re: Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
#3051 word: unreliability
Re: Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
#306My car (Lexus) and my iPhone X: The car detects iPhone presence, like, 50% of the time. If it does detect it, it shows me a couple of half-naked shaved guys hugging each other and begins playing "Songs of Innocence" the moment I turn the ignition on. I tried deleting this song from the iPhone, but it auto-magically restores itself somehow, as if it is in the telephone's firmware. The image of men hugging in shade is…
That’s a hilarious writeup.
My car starts blasting the FM radio if I don’t plug my iPhone in. I have never and will never willingly listen to FM radio, and yet, Ford has decided that it must be played at full volume an uncertain interval after the car is started. It’s caused me enough anxiety that I’ll be buying a different car next time.
Re: Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
#307Bluetooth is such a pain in the ass even as a techy. Most people probably just pair their iphones to their airpods and call it a day. But trying to use multiple bluetooth devices with each other (phones, laptops, ipads, connecting to headphones, speakers, and cars) is always a juggling act. Disconnect. Turn the headphones off. Sometimes forget the connection. Get out of range of the other device. Turn the headphones on. Turn bluetooth off. Turn it on.
Comments mention NFC pairing. That would be better in most cases.
Re: Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
#308I love bluetooth. My mouse, my keyboard, my airpods, my other NC headphones, carplay, TV remote, smart home devices - so many of them working 99% of time just totally fine. Small glitches from time to time are small price to pay for the convenience my everyday tools bring to my life.
Re: Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
#309I tried to learn why BT is still somehow painful to use, and the article basically does not have an answer. My take from comments here and my experience: - Makers of BT devices can't agree on many important common things (easy discovery / pairing mode, priority, etc), and have little incentive to seek agreement. It's like phone chargers before USB. - Makers of BT devices tend to cut corners and/or add not-entirely-st…
Also, head units generally don't get updates and the lifespan of a car is quite long. The phones that we are using now didn't always exist when the head unit was made.
Re: Bluetooth remains an 'unusually painful' technology after two decades
#310My car (Lexus) and my iPhone X: The car detects iPhone presence, like, 50% of the time. If it does detect it, it shows me a couple of half-naked shaved guys hugging each other and begins playing "Songs of Innocence" the moment I turn the ignition on. I tried deleting this song from the iPhone, but it auto-magically restores itself somehow, as if it is in the telephone's firmware. The image of men hugging in shade is…
Similar thing would happen in my Toyota, the song 'Afraid' by Yellowcard would play every time I turned on the car. Realized it was playing the first song in my library. In Apple Music there is a song called 'A a a a a Very Good Song (Silent Track)' by artist Samir Mezrahi, that contains 10 minutes of silence. I added that to my library and now that song plays when I turn on my car (although this autoplay only happen…
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