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wehidcjdi

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Registered: 2025-04-11

Posts: 3

[solved] bluetoothctl issue: "Failed br-connection-profile-unavai"

Hello, the past few days I have been trying to get bluetooth to work on arch, as it works just fine on windows. With pulseaudio or pipe wire, nothing gives. I am using pipewire and as far as I know, these are the packages I have downloaded: pipewire pipewire-audio  bluez and bluez-utils.
When I type:

bluetoothctl 
power on 
agent on 
pair {id} 

(I sometimes get a issue with 'pair {id}' saying "org.bluez.Error.AlreadyExists" I don't know if this is a issue because it will say pairing successful most of the time)

trust {id}  
connect {id} 

but here is the problem:

 Attempting to connect to {id}
 Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed br-connection-profile-unavailable

I use arch(btw) and i3 (don't know if this helps)

Last edited by wehidcjdi (2025-04-12 08:25:47)

lvsl

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Registered: 2024-08-22

Posts: 13

Re: [solved] bluetoothctl issue: "Failed br-connection-profile-unavai"

I'll quickly check this one first:
Likely you are missing drivers from the alsa series. I mean such as these ones here.

$ pacman -Qs alsa
local/alsa-card-profiles 1:1.4.1-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - ALSA card profiles
local/alsa-firmware 1.2.4-4
    Firmware binaries for loader programs in alsa-tools and hotplug firmware loader
local/alsa-lib 1.2.13-1
    An alternative implementation of Linux sound support
local/alsa-oss 1.1.8-6
    OSS compatibility library
local/alsa-plugins 1:1.2.12-4
    Additional ALSA plugins
local/alsa-tools 1.2.11-1
    Advanced tools for certain sound cards
local/alsa-topology-conf 1.2.5.1-4
    ALSA topology configuration files
local/alsa-ucm-conf 1.2.13-2
    ALSA Use Case Manager configuration (and topologies)
local/alsa-utils 1.2.13-2
    Advanced Linux Sound Architecture - Utilities
....
local/pipewire-alsa 1:1.4.1-1
    Low-latency audio/video router and processor - ALSA configuration
....

Last edited by lvsl (2025-04-12 01:07:47)

wehidcjdi

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Registered: 2025-04-11

Posts: 3

Re: [solved] bluetoothctl issue: "Failed br-connection-profile-unavai"

Hi, I thank you for this. I have switched to mint temporarily, but I would like to ask something and I hope it isn't too much. So I am installing arch from the installation guide which I can do now easily. I just don't know what I need for proper Bluetooth with pulse audio. What all should I download for proper Bluetooth support, so I know bluez bluez-utils pipewire pipewire-audio and I don't know what else to download other than alsa like you just told me. Thanks again and I will try this soon.

wehidcjdi

Member

Registered: 2025-04-11

Posts: 3

Re: [solved] bluetoothctl issue: "Failed br-connection-profile-unavai"

I'll quickly check this one first:
Likely you are missing drivers from the alsa series. I mean such as these ones here.

Hey, I tried it and that was it. I tell you, I spent hours and installed arch at least 10 times, all because of bluetooth and this fixed it. Thank you so much!