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elav

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[SOLVED] Bluetooth speaker stopped working

Hi everyone.

I'm using a Beelink Mini PC EQR6 with KDE Plasma, Kernel 6.18.9-arch1-2. Until yesterday, everything was working fine with my Echo Dot-C6F speaker connected via Bluetooth, but after a Bluez update, it's no longer listening.

The speaker only appears as WirePlumber [export]: Echo Dot-C6F (codec SBC).

Here are some of the results when running these commands:

pactl list short sinks
175 alsa_output.usb-R__DE_RODECaster_Duo_IR0016034-00.pro-output-0 PipeWire s32le 2ch 48000Hz RUNNING
176 alsa_output.usb-R__DE_RODECaster_Duo_IR0016034-00.pro-output-1 PipeWire s32le 2ch 48000Hz SUSPENDED

pactl get-default-sink
alsa_output.usb-R__DE_RODECaster_Duo_IR0016034-00.pro-output-0

It only detects the Rodecaster Duo, which is currently powered on, as a sound device.

pactl list card

Card #115 
Name: bluez_card.0C_43_F9_71_36_61 
Driver: module-bluez5-device.c 
Owner Module: n/a 
Properties: 
device.api = "bluez5" 
device.bus = "bluetooth" 
media.class = "Audio/Device" 
device.name = "bluez_card.0C_43_F9_71_36_61" 
device.description = "Echo Dot-C6F" 
device.alias = "Echo Dot-C6F" 
device.vendor.id = "bluetooth:0171" 
device.product.id = "0x0180" 
device.form_factor = "speaker" 
device.string = "0C:43:F9:71:36:61" 
api.bluez5.icon = "audio-card" 
api.bluez5.path = "/org/bluez/hci0/dev_0C_43_F9_71_36_61" 
api.bluez5.address = "0C:43:F9:71:36:61" 
api.bluez5.device = "" 
api.bluez5.class = "0x2c0414" 
api.bluez5.connection = "connected" 
device.icon_name = "audio-speakers-bluetooth" 
bluez5.profile = "off" 
spa.object.id = "6" 
factory.id = "15" 
client.id = "46" 
object.id = "67" 
object.serial = "115" 
Profiles: 
off: Off (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority: 0, available: yes) 
audio-gateway: Audio Gateway (A2DP Source & HSP/HFP AG) (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority: 256, available: yes) 
Active Profile: audio gateway

I already tried creating a configuration file for Wireplumber, and a bunch of other things, but they don't make sense, because until yesterday everything was working without problems.

Thanks

Last edited by elav (2026-02-16 20:49:41)

resurtm

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From: Munich

Registered: 2026-02-15

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Re: [SOLVED] Bluetooth speaker stopped working

Sorry if this comment violates any rules (just signed up here), but I'm also experiencing the similar issue.
It starts to work again when I launch `systemctl --user restart wireplumber`. Waiting for a proper solution too.

Last edited by resurtm (2026-02-15 12:27:50)

Preycon

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From: México, D.F.

Registered: 2009-02-14

Posts: 57

Re: [SOLVED] Bluetooth speaker stopped working

Same thing happening to me with an Echo Studio, tried downgrading bluez, bluez-libs and bluez-qt packages but not change.

Preycon

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Registered: 2009-02-14

Posts: 57

Re: [SOLVED] Bluetooth speaker stopped working

I could replicate the same problem with a laptop after updating today, luckily I took notes about the bluez packages that were working and a snapshot.

Using: bluez-5.85-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst bluez-libs-5.85-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst bluez-qt-6.22.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Gives me a working bluetooth again.

Hope it helps.

elav

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Re: [SOLVED] Bluetooth speaker stopped working

I could replicate the same problem with a laptop after updating today, luckily I took notes about the bluez packages that were working and a snapshot.

Using: bluez-5.85-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst bluez-libs-5.85-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst bluez-qt-6.22.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Gives me a working bluetooth again.

Hope it helps.

I'll try.. Thanks

elav

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Re: [SOLVED] Bluetooth speaker stopped working

I could replicate the same problem with a laptop after updating today, luckily I took notes about the bluez packages that were working and a snapshot.

Using: bluez-5.85-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst bluez-libs-5.85-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst bluez-qt-6.22.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst

Gives me a working bluetooth again.

Hope it helps.

Done.. Thanks to @Preycon, I've already solved the problem. I made a small script to automate everything, and while I was at it, I added some packages to Pacman's ignore list.

#!/bin/bash

mkdir -p ~/arch_downgrade && cd ~/arch_downgrade

URL_BLUEZ="https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/b/bluez/bluez-5.85-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst"
URL_BLUEZ_LIBS="https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/b/bluez-libs/bluez-libs-5.85-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst"
URL_BLUEZ_QT="https://archive.archlinux.org/packages/b/bluez-qt/bluez-qt-6.22.0-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst"

echo "Downloading..."

sudo pacman -U $URL_BLUEZ $URL_BLUEZ_LIBS $URL_BLUEZ_QT

So in pacman.conf

IgnorePkg = bluez bluez-libs bluez-qt

topcat01

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Re: [SOLVED] Bluetooth speaker stopped working

Does restarting wireplumber work with the updated packages?

elav

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Re: [SOLVED] Bluetooth speaker stopped working

Does restarting wireplumber work with the updated packages?

Not for me.