I don’t know if this is going to make any sense to anyone but hear me out. It feels like whenever you have an issue with Bluetooth it’s some kinda goofy ass problem that would only happen with Bluetooth devices.
To give some examples:
– Interactions between multiple Bluetooth devices being janky
– Devices connecting to each other when you don’t want them to, or refusing to connect when you do want them to.
– weird audio glitches in specific scenarios
– audio devices switching back and forth between two other devices they’ve been paired with recently
Obviously I understand at a base level that there’s radio waves carrying information and these can be interrupted by stuff like microwaves. But I’m more talking about issues regarding pairing, and other odd quirks that you don’t experience when using other wireless connections like WiFi.
Can someone explain in layman’s terms why Bluetooth is like this? Or am I just being crazy
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Because Bluetooth is **horribly** designed.
There *is* a standard and *in theory* everything is supposed to happily work together, but in practice the standard is extremely vague and extremely complicated. There are dozens of layers you have to implement, and plenty of instances where there’s room for interpretation.
The end result is that everyone is doing something sliiiightly different, so if two devices aren’t made by the same manufacturer (and therefore actually tested together) you can run into weird behaviour. And fixing those issues is like pulling a block out of a Jenga stack: who knows what the fix is going to break?
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