Disable wifi and blueooth on Pi3

formslash

Just got my Pi3 and starting messing around with Rune as a renderer on my network getting music from Minimserver. So far so good! Going to be adding Digi+ board soon. Here is my noob question...what is best way to disable Wifi and Bluetooth? I am after the absolute best sound quality so I want to disable all unnecessary services. The only thing I have found from another forum is to blacklist loading of the Wifi and Bluetooth drivers (see below). Is there a better way?

/etc/modprobe.d/raspi-blacklist.conf

#wifi
blacklist brcmfmac
blacklist brcmutil
#bt
blacklist btbcm
blacklist hci_uart

hondagx35

Hi formslash,

You can disable the drivers by editing the file /etc/modprobe.d/disable_rpi3_wifi_bt.conf:

##wifi
#blacklist brcmfmac
#blacklist brcmutil
##bt
#blacklist btbcm
#blacklist hci_uart

This will disable wifi:

##wifi
blacklist brcmfmac
blacklist brcmutil
##bt
#blacklist btbcm
#blacklist hci_uart

Frank

- Get access to the console:
Use SSH from your PC

If you are not familiar with SSH read this for Windows or this for Linux/MacOS
The default login for RuneAudio is "root" with the password "rune" (without quotes).

- Use sftp to access files on Rune Audio:
Get WinSCP from here and install it.
When it opens setup the following:
- Session
File Protocol: SCP
Host name: The IP address of your Raspberry Pi
User name: root
Password: rune

That's it, connect and you can transfer files just by dragging and dropping.