Shutdown Bluetooth On Raspberry Pi 3?

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1

Hi everybody,

As I’m using Airplay and Spotify Connect, I was wondering if it was possible to definitively shut down Bluetooth on my raspberry pi 3 to completely avoid the problem between Wifi and Bluetooth ?

Thanx for your futur answers!

2

Hi, in order to shutdown Bluetooth you can set

RESIN_HOST_CONFIG_dtoverlay=pi3-disable-bt

Or set it in config.txt before boot.

4

Hi!

I don’t know how to do it in config.txt but I did it in “Device configuration”.
The service “bluetooth-audio” is still running but I can’t find the device on my phone so I guess it works.

Thanx!

6

Hi, another option you have is to completely remove the bluetooth-audio service. You can do that by editing the docker-compose.yml file and removing the following lines:

  bluetooth-audio:
    build: ./bluetooth-audio
    restart: always
    network_mode: host
    privileged: true
    labels:
      io.balena.features.dbus: 1
    volumes:
      - bluetoothcache:/var/cache/bluetooth
      - snapcast:/var/cache/snapcast

You will need to re-deploy the application using balena push <app>.

9

Hi,

Thanx for your help.
I’ll try your option if the first one doesn’t work. But it seems to work for the moment!

10

Sounds good! Great to know it’s working.

12

Hi, sorry for opening a old post.
But I have a RP1 online and it gives error in log and trying to restat BT as it does not have BT onboard.
Will I use:
RESIN_HOST_CONFIG_dtoverlay=pi-disable-bt ?
Or do I have to remove the BT-audio from the yaml file?
Thanks in advance