to ask how I stop my neighbour messing with my wireless speaker?

[MakeMisogynyAHateCrime]

My neighbour is a dick, a grade A dick. He has taken to now somehow talking to my wireless speaker (a KS Miami cheapy thing).
He just said
“My name dog, my name back door, my name silly cow”.

What I’m playing isn’t loud. I’m playing the sound from my broken iPad which plays at about half the normal rate (I prop the iPad on my drawers but can’t hear it at all and then play the speaker next to me at a low volume - about half iPhone max volume and never after 20:30) it in my bedroom.

How do I prevent him from using it? The device just seems to be a case of turning it on and then syncing your device with no codes or anything.
Our internet is secure but this is really bugging me.

[OnionKnight]

Is it a bluetooth speaker? If so if he is in range it'd be pretty easy to connect and if it was cheap there's probably not a 'pair' button. How does he know that it's your speaker though?

[GottadoitGottadoit]

Calling him Awful loud bastard sounds relatively polite in my opinion

[Oldraver]

I've just checked the instructions for my amp and there doesn't seem to be anything to prevent any pairing, so therefore a neighbour or random in the street could hook up.

[BulletFox]

Actually I never knew this about Bluetooth.

So anyone can 'pair up'? They'd have to go out of their way to do it? And multiple people can do it?

I always thought it was restricted to your mobile phone

[Bigbertha123]

How do you know it’s your neighbour? You mention mental health problems and I’m concerned you are having auditory hallucinations, especially with the negative comments about you. Have you ever experienced hallucinations or psychosis? Maybe need to speak to your GP. Wishing you all the best.

[ourkidmolly]

@Bigbertha123

There's a big leap you're jumping there! Auditory hallucinations? The op has said she's suffering from anxiety not paranoid schizophrenia. Op please don't think you're hallucinating, I would ask a friend to listen and I think I'd phone 101 gut advice. I know that's always suggested on here but this is appallingly intrusive behaviour.

[c3pu]

Blue jacking is as old as Bluetooth.

Change your WiFi SSID to "NeighbourIsACunt" or something, and get a more secure device.

[Bigbertha123]

@ourkidmolly

I’m just worried about OP as this seems very strange and she mentioned mental health issues. Anxiety could be a part of it, but there could be more. I wasn’t aware you could get a cheap speaker that would play sound such as OP described from the Good Wife and also have a voice over from the neighbour interrupting this and playing simultaneously. From my understanding a wireless speaker would pick up other devices, such as music from an iPad or something, but can it really play voices? Is he using a walky talky or something? Just very strange. I’m not trying to upset OP, trying to help if there is something else going on.

[Bigbertha123]

Also, I didn’t say paranoid schizophrenia, auditory hallucinations can be a manifestation of depression, bipolar disorder and schizophrenia, amongst many other mental health problems.

[OnionKnight]

That's a good point, how is the neighbour transmitting his voice, bluetooth walkie talkie? I can pair my phone to my speaker but I could only use it as a hands free during calls.

[fastfrank]

@Bigbertha123 what the fuck are you talking about

[Witchend]

How would the neighbour know you could hear him through the speakers?

[mustbemad17]

It's really easy to play a voice recording over a bluetooth speaker. We used to pee around with each other's speakers all the time at Uni, usually after one too many drinks & a scary movie.
Never found a way to stop other people pairing to them though, not sure if there is any way to do that.

[Bigbertha123]

@fastfrank I’m worried about OP as it seems incredibly unlikely that a neighbour is able to communicate through a speaker whilst she is watching and listening to a TV programme. How exactly is neighbour speaking into the speaker? With what device? And why would speaker play his voice at same time as TV programme?

[OnionKnight]

How would the neighbour know you could hear him through the speakers?

And how does he know it's her speaker?

It doesn't make sense yet the OP is on Rightmove

[mustbemad17]

If you can pick up a device via Bluetooth on your phone then you can access it just as anyone can. I get connection messages on my phone sometimes for random Bluetooth devices when I come in range of them. It really isn't that difficult to do!!

Clearly your neighbour is a dick. Has your device got a really obvious name that he can recognise???

[Intelinside]

Bloody hell. This can happen. You just nees to be within a certain radius of the speaker and then pair with it. If you then record something, you can play it back through the speaker.

People have such strong fucking opinions about shit they know nothing about . Just because you don't know how to do something, doesn't mean it's impossible and others are hallucinating.

Bloody mumsnet

[Oldraver]

BulletFox At the moment we only have the laptop paired with the BT amp, but any BT enabled device can pair up. We dont use it yet, but thought the young 'uns could use their phones etc if they wanted to use the amp/speakers. It appears their isnt anything on the amp to stop any pairing..It was not a cheap bit of kit

[roomsonfire]

Its actually very easy to communicate through a speaker. most cheap generic bluetooth speakers just need you to search for the device then connect via the phone only. sending voice messages is very simple. you can record voice notes on most phones and then send via bluetooth.

[PiffleandWiffle]

most bluetooth things should have a pairing code, a lot of the cheap ones either don't or it's set to 1234 or 0000.

Find out if you can change the code. If not, I'd be tempted to get rid & buy one a bit better (read the online manual & reviews)

[Bigbertha123]

@Intelinside how the fuck do you know what I know about? I may not know a great deal about Bluetooth speakers, but I certainly know my shit about mental health, hallucinations and psychosis and this is a very very classical presentation. Intrusive voices whilst watching tv with negative descriptions.

I was just trying to help OP.

[Bigbertha123]

@Intelinside also I didn’t say it was impossible, simply offering an alternative possibility, maybe you shouldn’t comment on things you know fuck all about.

[mygorgeousmilo]

It’s definitely possible to connect to Bluetooth/speakers etc, and they usually don’t have any kind of password

[Finderscrispy]

Op is the pissing about with your speaker the only thing the neighbour does ? If yes, can you look into buying something more secure, or just go for the traditional option of plugin speaker.
If you’re having other problems can you start logging the behaviour and report either to landlord if he rents, or local council. High jacking your Bluetooth speaker is really intrusive, he is bullying you and you shouldn’t have to put up with that especially in your own home.
Hope you get it sorted op.