Kenwood BT headunit fighting with BT smart watch

[K_Watson 10+ year member]

I have a Kenwood KDC-BT758 Bluetooth headunit and an LG G2 smartphone that have been playing nice together for a year... until I bought a LG G watch.

Now the headunit will fail to connect to the phone unless I manually connect them with the phone BT settings, which sometimes won't do it and I have to initialize the Bt on the headunit and delete the headunit from the phone, restart both, and reconnect them. Then the next drive, I have to do it again. The problem is known from searches, but does not seem to be officially acknowledged my either manufacturer. Does any one know a fix?

The other issue is the for the last few days, the Bluetooth icon is now flashing on the headunit and I can't get it to quit. The manual is no help, what does a constantly flashing BT symbol mean?

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[jordon]

It is becUse your watch is Bluetooth also.

 

[K_Watson 10+ year member]

True, but Bluetooth allows for up to 7 connections at the same time, if I remember correctly.

 

[K_Watson 10+ year member]

I uninstalled Android wear, turned off the watch, and reset the car stereo, reconnected the phone, readjusted my sound, and everything is back to normal.

I don't know if its the Watch or the Android software but something is not compatible with the Kenwood head unit.

This stinks, I like the convenience of the watch, but I like my car stereo BT working more.

 

[Krave]

Did you connect the watch to the HU via bluetooth? If you did I would not do so and only pair the phone with the HU. Let the watch control the phone and phone control the HU.

 

[K_Watson 10+ year member]

No, I did not or at least I did not intentionally connect the watch to the head unit, I will try them again tomorrow now that I have auto pairing turned off on the head unit.