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Originally Posted by John F
If bluetooth is on, wouldn't it need to do something once in a while to connect to headphones?
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Yes, but, it could also say, "I'm not actually playing anything, so why don't I just not do anything. And when I'm asked to play something, then I will try and connect."
And a quick test seems to back this up. The steps I did were:
- Closed the book I was reading.
- Opened an audiobook. This show "No Bluetooth Connected".
- I tapped the play button on the Sage.
- The pairing dialog showed. It showed my wireless earphones as a saved device. But, they were in the case and not available to pair.
- After a few moment, the TV showed up.
- I paired to the TV and the book started playing.
- After a few seconds, I exited the book player.
- After a few more seconds, I opened the book player again. This showed the device was still paired and when I hit play, it started.
- Then I exited the book player again. The TV still showed it was paired (had it's player app up and showed the details of the device and book).
- After a few minutes, the TV changed to say "Ready to connect".
- I waited another couple of five minutes and opened the audibook again. The device hadn't gone to sleep in this time. This showed "No Bluetooth Connected".
- I left it there for a couple of minutes while I caught up on typing these steps. The Bluetooth status did not change.
- Tapping play brought up the device list with not connected devices. After a few moment, it paired to the TV and the device list closed.
- I had to tap the play button to actually play the book.
- Stopping, waiting and then opening the player again, showed the no connected device.
- Opening the Bluetooth on my phone and my laptop and scanning for Bluetooth devices did not show the Sage. But, as it is the host device, I don't know what these should show.
All that says to me that the Bluetooth is not actually active except when playing an audiobook and maybe for a short time afterwards. It is definitely dropping the connection to the audio device within five minutes of stopping playing a book. And it isn't automatically connecting to an audio device when I open a book. It is by no means conclusive, but, I really don't think that the Bluetooth is continuously scanning or announcing itself when the audiobook player is not active.