I got a bluetooth speaker, but there's no sound coming from it.
First I installed bluez and blueman packages. With these packages, I could find and connect with the buetooth speaker. I connected to the service "Audio Sink". That all seemed to work fine. I could hear from the speaker that something has connected and blueman also showed that it was connected.
However, when I play some music from youtube, the speaker remains quiet. How can the bluetooth speaker play music?
Is there a place where I can say what the default sound device is? Since I suspect I only need to redirect the sound to the correct device. I thought the bluetooth device would show up in the alsamixer, but there wasn't any change there. So it has to be somewhere else, but the question is where?
[Solved] No sound from bluetooth speaker
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- White ninja
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[Solved] No sound from bluetooth speaker
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Re: No sound from bluetooth speaker
hi, into the /etc/alsa directory you have a bluetooth.conf a part of this file you have to add at asound.state,i don't have bluetooth device, this is from the linuxquestion forum
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- White ninja
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Re: No sound from bluetooth speaker
Thanks for responding!beny wrote:hi, into the /etc/alsa directory you have a bluetooth.conf a part of this file you have to add at asound.state,i don't have bluetooth device, this is from the linuxquestion forum
I tried to copy that part from the bluetooth.conf to asound.state. Tried to add it as a new device with all kinds of variations. However it did not work.
After searching a little bit more, I found it was possible to redirect the sound to the bluetooth speaker. I found the answer in the Debian wiki. https://wiki.debian.org/Bluetooth/Alsa
What I was missing was the user configuration file ~/.asoundrc.
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cat ~/.asoundrc
pcm.bluetooth {
type bluetooth
device "XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX"
profile "auto"
}
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pcm.!default {
Re: No sound from bluetooth speaker
well, i suppose that bluetooth do the pairing with the device,the bluetooth daemon is started? in console sh /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth start you can see it in task manager if is started,i have see that most user have pulseaudio like audio server but try alsa first
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- White ninja
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Re: No sound from bluetooth speaker
Yes, the bluetooth daemon has started. However, I started it using bluetoothd. That way blueman also starts and from there I just used the GUI to pair and connect with the bluetooth speaker.beny wrote:well, i suppose that bluetooth do the pairing with the device,the bluetooth daemon is started? in console sh /etc/rc.d/rc.bluetooth start you can see it in task manager if is started,i have see that most user have pulseaudio like audio server but try alsa first
I also tried getting pulseaudio via usm, but there was only a slackbuild of it. The slackbuild stops building somewhere because the package json was not found. So I kind of stopped there as well.
Re: [Solved] No sound from bluetooth speaker
via usm you can solve the json issue there are json packages ready to use
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- White ninja
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Re: [Solved] No sound from bluetooth speaker
I got one library with json in it. The build continued, but stopped somewhere. Apperently there's no space left on the device. That's also possible because it's building everything in /tmp and I'm running everything in RAM. So yeah, dead end.beny wrote:via usm you can solve the json issue there are json packages ready to use
Anyhow, thanks for the help, beny!