"NullPointerException" conexão Bluetooth

Quando tento usar o método write a partir da Activity principal ocorre o erro
MainActivity
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public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
private static final int REQUEST_ENABLE_BT = 123;
private static final int REQUEST_MICROPHONE = 456;
Bt_connect bt_connect;
private static TextView subtitle;
private boolean firstTime = true;
public static Context context;
private SpeechToText stt;
private static TextView statusMessage;
private Button mic_button;

/…
@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

/ … \

public void onClickEscutar(View view) throws InterruptedException {
    Log.i("Text","clicou");
    stt.backgroundVoiceListener.run(); // inicia o reconhecedor de voz do android
}
public void onClickBt_connect(View view)throws InterruptedException{
    bt_connect = new Bt_connect("98:D3:34:90:F1:41"); // faz a conexão bluetooth 
    bt_connect.start();
}
public void MsgToArduino(String txt) {
    bt_connect.write(txt.getBytes());   // manda a mensagem 
}

}

Class Speech Recognizer
public class SpeechToText implements RecognitionListener {
private SpeechRecognizer speech = null;
private Intent recognizerIntent;
private MainActivity mainActivity;
private String text = “”;
Bt_connect connect;
private boolean isListening = false;
int MINIMUM_LENGTH_FOR_EXTRA_SPEECH_IN_MILLIS = 2000;
final BackgroundVoiceListener backgroundVoiceListener;
/…
@Override
public void onReadyForSpeech(Bundle bundle) {
setListening(false);
}
@Override
public void onBeginningOfSpeech() {
setListening(true);
}
@Override
public void onRmsChanged(float v) {
Log.i(“Text”, "onRmsChanged: " + v);
}
@Override
public void onBufferReceived(byte[] bytes) {

}
@Override
public void onEndOfSpeech() {
    setListening(false);
}
@Override
public void onError(int i) {
    mainActivity.setSubtitle(text);
    Log.i("Text","text: " + text);
}
@Override
public void onResults(Bundle bundle) {

}
@Override
public void onPartialResults(Bundle partialResults) {
    ArrayList<String> matches = partialResults
            .getStringArrayList(SpeechRecognizer.RESULTS_RECOGNITION);
    text = "";
    Log.i("Text","text: " + text);
    if(matches.size() > 0)
        for (String result : matches){
            if(result.equalsIgnoreCase("ligar luz")){
                mainActivity.MsgToArduino("ligar luz"); // Manda a msg quando o resultado desejado e encontrado 
            }
        }
    Log.i("Text","text: " + text);
    mainActivity.setSubtitle(text);
    setListening(false);
}
@Override
public void onEvent(int i, Bundle bundle) {}
public class BackgroundVoiceListener extends Thread{
    public void run(){
        try {
            this.sleep(2000);
            if(!isListening()){
                setListening(true);
                speech.startListening(recognizerIntent);
            }
        } catch (InterruptedException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }
}

}

Class Conexão Bluetooth
public class Bt_connect extends Thread{

BluetoothSocket btSocket = null;
BluetoothServerSocket btServerSocket = null;
InputStream input = null;
OutputStream output = null;
String btDevAddress = null;
String myUUID = "00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805F9B34FB";
boolean server;
boolean running = false;
boolean isConnected = false;

    public Bt_connect() {  // construtor modo servidor 
    this.server = true;
}

public Bt_connect(String btDevAddress) { // construtor modo cliente 
    this.server = false;
    this.btDevAddress = btDevAddress;
}

public void run() {
    this.running = true;
    BluetoothAdapter btAdapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();

    if(this.server) {
        /*  Servidor.
         */
        try {
            btServerSocket = btAdapter.listenUsingRfcommWithServiceRecord("Super Counter", UUID.fromString(myUUID));
            btSocket = btServerSocket.accept();

            if(btSocket != null) {

                btServerSocket.close();
            }

        } catch (IOException e) {

             e.printStackTrace();
            toMainActivity("---N".getBytes());
        }


    } else {

        /*  Cliente.
         */
        try {


            BluetoothDevice btDevice = btAdapter.getRemoteDevice(btDevAddress);
            btSocket = btDevice.createRfcommSocketToServiceRecord(UUID.fromString(myUUID));

     
            btAdapter.cancelDiscovery();

           
            if (btSocket != null) {
                btSocket.connect();
            }

        } catch (IOException e) {

            e.printStackTrace();
            toMainActivity("---N".getBytes());
        }

    }
 // conexao pronta 
    if(btSocket != null) {

        this.isConnected = true;
        toMainActivity("---S".getBytes());

        try {

            /* 
            input = btSocket.getInputStream();
            output = btSocket.getOutputStream();

        
            while(running) {

                byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
                int bytes;
                int bytesRead = -1;

                
                do {
                    bytes = input.read(buffer, bytesRead+1, 1);
                    bytesRead+=bytes;
                } while(buffer[bytesRead] != '\n');

                /*  A mensagem recebida é enviada para a Activity principal.
                 */
                toMainActivity(Arrays.copyOfRange(buffer, 0, bytesRead));

            }

        } catch (IOException e) {

           
            e.printStackTrace();
            toMainActivity("---N".getBytes());
            this.isConnected = false;
        }
    }

}

private void toMainActivity(byte[] data) {

    Message message = new Message();
    Bundle bundle = new Bundle();
    bundle.putByteArray("data", data);
    message.setData(bundle);
    MainActivity.handler.sendMessage(message);
}


public void write(byte[] data) { // metodo escreve na conexao bluetooth
    if(output != null) {
        try {
            /*  Transmite a mensagem.
             */
            output.write(data);
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    } else {

        /*  Envia à Activity principal um código de erro durante a conexão.
         */
        toMainActivity("---N".getBytes());
    }
}
public void cancel() {
    try {
        running = false;
        this.isConnected = false;
        btServerSocket.close();
        btSocket.close();
    } catch (IOException e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    running = false;
    this.isConnected = false;
}
public boolean isConnected() {
    return this.isConnected;
}

}

StackTrace
` java.lang.NullPointerException: Attempt to invoke virtual method ‘void skynet.home_control.Bt_connect.write(byte[])’ on a null object reference
11-13 20:11:02.509 22970-22970/skynet.home_control W/System.err: at skynet.home_control.MainActivity.MsgToArduino(MainActivity.java:138)
11-13 20:11:02.509 22970-22970/skynet.home_control W/System.err: at skynet.home_control.SpeechToText.onPartialResults(SpeechToText.java:85)
11-13 20:11:02.509 22970-22970/skynet.home_control W/System.err: at android.speech.SpeechRecognizer$InternalListener$1.handleMessage(SpeechRecognizer.java:459)
11-13 20:11:02.509 22970-22970/skynet.home_control W/System.err: at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
11-13 20:11:02.509 22970-22970/skynet.home_control W/System.err: at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:154)
11-13 20:11:02.509 22970-22970/skynet.home_control W/System.err: at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:6123)
11-13 20:11:02.509 22970-22970/skynet.home_control W/System.err: at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
11-13 20:11:02.510 22970-22970/skynet.home_control W/System.err: at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:867)
11-13 20:11:02.510 22970-22970/skynet.home_control W/System.err: at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:757)
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