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External Bose Bluetooth speakers go into a sleep mode when nothing is being transmitted to them. Dot, while always listening for the wake word, doesn’t seem to be sending ‘keep alive’ signals to the Bluetooth. So after a period of time, the Bluetooth will disconnect and won’t reconnect until you press the button on the speaker or tell Dot to connect to the speakers again. I believe that Dot needs to send keep alives. I’m looking for a solution.
Hi, Just wondering if, in the Bluetooth settings, there is an option to alter the visibility timeout setting to never timeout and whether this would make a difference. Or if there are any options in the Bluetooth’s advanced settings section which may be of some help.
I would also like an answer to this same problem if they come up with one!
It should be simple enough to make a skill for Alexa that just sends a short and silent audio signal every 9 minutes to make Bluetooth speakers of ALL brands stay awake. I have been plagued by this on five different sets of Bluetooth speakers. Having the connection is useless if the speakers keep going to sleep, and there’s no reason there can’t be a skill to combat this.
I have the same problem, i.e., the Bose connection to the Dot goes to sleep after a short interval of about 15 minutes. I did not see an answer posted… did I miss something? troy_duster@berkeley.edu
