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pauliux

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Registered: 2016-07-03

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Bluetooth and Pulseaudio not working.

So, I have an external bluetooth speaker. I read this thread: Bluetooth headset - ArchWiki
Did everything and the speaker paired(it didn't ask for a pass code, but it doesn't ask on my phone also, so I thought it was normal.). I typed connect and it connected, but speaker didn't beep to show it's connected, but according to  bluetoothctl it was connected. So I moved on to play music. It was playing on my laptop speakers like it should. I went to pavucontrol to change output sink, but I couldn't find anything else than my laptop speakers. Maybe logs can help.
BTW: FC:58:FA:0B:8C:42 is my speaker.

[pauliux@loptopas ~]$ journalctl -n 20
-- Logs begin at Fri 2016-02-19 04:57:44 EET, end at Mon 2016-07-04 21:49:15 EEST. --
Jul 04 21:47:09 loptopas kernel: Bluetooth: hci0 link tx timeout
Jul 04 21:47:09 loptopas kernel: Bluetooth: hci0 killing stalled connection fc:58:fa:0b:8c:42

[pauliux@loptopas ~]$ systemctl status bluetooth
● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
   Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
   Active: active (running) since Mon 2016-07-04 21:33:46 EEST; 20min ago
     Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
 Main PID: 243 (bluetoothd)
   Status: "Running"
    Tasks: 1 (limit: 512)
   CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
           └─243 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

Jul 04 21:33:46 loptopas bluetoothd[243]: Bluetooth daemon 5.40
Jul 04 21:33:46 loptopas systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
Jul 04 21:33:46 loptopas bluetoothd[243]: Starting SDP server
Jul 04 21:33:46 loptopas bluetoothd[243]: Bluetooth management interface 1.12 initialized
Jul 04 21:33:46 loptopas bluetoothd[243]: Failed to obtain handles for "Service Changed" characteristic
Jul 04 21:33:46 loptopas bluetoothd[243]: Sap driver initialization failed.
Jul 04 21:33:46 loptopas bluetoothd[243]: sap-server: Operation not permitted (1)
Jul 04 21:40:54 loptopas bluetoothd[243]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.14 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource
Jul 04 21:40:54 loptopas bluetoothd[243]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.14 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink
Jul 04 21:50:55 loptopas bluetoothd[243]: FC:58:FA:0B:8C:42: error updating services: Input/output error (5)

pauliux

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Re: Bluetooth and Pulseaudio not working.

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Re: Bluetooth and Pulseaudio not working.

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Re: Bluetooth and Pulseaudio not working.

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cappuccino

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Re: Bluetooth and Pulseaudio not working.

>pauliux

I had similar problems connecting my Bose QuietComfort QC35. The problem was the agent. I could connect to headphones, but could not pair them, get any sound .... After registering agent everything started to work.

Steps I used:

bluetoothctl
[bluetooth]# power on
Changing power on succeeded
[bluetooth]# devices
Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Bose QuietComfort 35
Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX the-nudie-bear-thinkpad
Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Moto G
[bluetooth]# agent on
Agent registered
[NEW] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Bose QuietComfort 35
[CHG] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX RSSI is nil
[CHG] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Connected: yes
[CHG] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Paired: yes
[CHG] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Trusted: yes

HTH.

Last edited by cappuccino (2016-08-05 20:10:50)