I'm using Bluetouch in my iPhone as a bluetooth mouse (rarely when needed) for my OrangePi/Armbian/Kodi setup. All fine with that… except… with my iPhone paired to the OrangePi, it also connects all its audio to the OrangePi, *all the time* when in range, unless I completely disable bluetooth from the iPhone. 

 

According to the only instructions I've found, I've tried setting

[General]
Enable=

in `/etc/bluetooth/main.conf`, and restarting the bluetooth service, but the only effect this has is that there's no audible output. The phone still connects its audio to the box, just with no audible output.

 

How to completely disable Armbian from advertising itself as a bluetooth audio device, while being able to connect bluetooth peripherals?

 

 

Edited May 25, 20251 yr by Thomm

More attempts:

As suggested by DeepSeek (ChatGPT was less helpful), I also tried changing the bluetooth service script to

ExecStart=/usr/libexec/bluetooth/bluetoothd --noplugin=a2dp --noplugin=avrcp --noplugin=player

and then restarting systemd itself and the bluetooth service, but no luck. 

I tried adding

monitor.bluez.properties = {
  bluez5.roles = [ ]
}

to /usr/share/pipewire/pipewire.conf and restarting wireplumber, but no luck.

I tried

menu advertise
uuids 0x1200 0x1800 0x1801 0x180a

in bluetoothctl, to disable advertising the audio profiles, but no luck.

But when in bluetoothctl, it really shows the audio connection being made when the phone connects. 
 

that’s a super specific and annoying issue! It sounds like Armbian is still exposing an A2DP (audio) profile even after you tweaked the main.conf. Have you tried disabling the audio sink entirely via Bluetooth CLI or modifying the /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf (if it exists) to set AutoConnect=false under [General]?