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gusn

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Registered: 2022-01-03

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bluetooth headphones with pipewire

Currently trying to get bluetooth headphones working. On the arch wiki page for Bluetooth#PipeWire, all it says is that PipeWire "enables its bluetooth support by default, see Config Bluetooth" which links to an empty wiki page on the PipeWire gitlab. After searching through the other pages of that wiki it seems that bluetooth endpoints are managed through WirePlumber. So now I'm at the WirePlumber wiki and I have a few questions.

In the "Location of configuration files" section it says that WirePlumber searches for custom user config files at "XDG_CONFIG_DIR/wireplumber".

In the Arch wiki page on XDG Base Directory there is no "XDG_CONFIG_DIR", instead "XDG_CONFIG_HOME" is for user specific configurations. Will WirePlumber try to use "XDG_CONFIG_DIR" or" XDG_CONFIG_HOME"? Should I just set "XDG_CONFIG_DIR=$XDG_CONFIG_HOME"?

I copied "bluetooth.conf" and "bluetooth.lua.d/" from "/usr/share/wireplumber/" to "~/.config/wireplumber/". I'm now editing "bluetooth.lua.d/50-bluez-config.lua" and I'm unsure what I should change to get audio to play out of my headphones. The "bluez_monitor.rules" array already has "matches" objects with "bluez_card.*", "bluez_input.*" and "bluez_output.*" so it should just use any card and source or sink that's connected, right? The headphones show up as a device in pulsemixer but audio still only comes out of my speakers, am I missing something?

Also changing any of the levels for other devices in pulsemixer doesn't change the volume of my speakers at all, but it does in alsamixer. The bluetooth headphones don't show up in alsamixer though so I can't really use it.

Last edited by gusn (2022-01-03 07:14:28)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: bluetooth headphones with pipewire

Can you/have you tried to manually move applications to the bluetooth sink and the "only" thing lacking is the auto-switch? If the latter see: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWi … headphones

Last edited by V1del (2022-01-03 07:45:50)

gusn

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Registered: 2022-01-03

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Re: bluetooth headphones with pipewire

Okay so last night I shut my computer down and powered on this morning, now my bluetooth headphones are working but my speakers don't make any sound.

I looked at the link you sent and messed around with pactl some. When I list all sinks I see a bunch of different sinks but I'm only able to move-sink-input to 3 of them. The only one that will play sound is the bluetooth sink.