Nuc86
Member
I have kind of the same problem with a BT adapter for our stereo. The adapter is always on for everyone to easily connecting to it. However this made it kind of a random race as for whom would connect to it at any given time.
Also when someone was home alone our phones/tablets would automatically connect to the adapter even when we didn't want to use it.
Unfortunately it seems like no one has solved this issue elegantly, though the solution seems obvious; implementing a BT auto connect setting for each BT device paired.
I did however find a usable work around:
By opening the BT settings for each device, for which you don't want to automatically connect to your phone or tablet, you can deselect all the functionalities for that device.
This will actually make your phone or tablet not reconnect to the device until you enable at least one of the devices functionalities again.
Now the trick is to make the device settings as easily accessible as possible. My current solution to this is adding a widget to our phones and tablets. Right now I have only found a widget that will let us enter the BT general settings, and not the settings of an individual device. But even this solution is working, all though it by no means is perfect.
If anyone knows of a widget that'll let me enter the settings of a specific BT device directly, please leave a note in here...
The same goes of course if you know of a simpler solution or work around for the problem causing this discussion.
Activate the Developers options and to "Maximum connected Bluetooth audio devices" and change to 1 device.
Restart your device.