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Asaf K.

Member

Registered: 2011-05-04

Posts: 67

Bluetooth and ALSA

So, I bought a pair of bluetooth headphones. Since I don't have PulseAudio, I followed the Arch Wiki, and for the most part it worked just fine. I could pair and connect the headphones to my computer (Dell XPS 13 9360).

I've even managed to play things to the headphones using aplay -D and specifying the bluetooth device. But for the life of me, I cannot make the headphones to be the default device. I've tried the two common /etc/asound.conf version I found online:

pcm.btheadset {
type plug
 slave {
   pcm {
       type bluetooth
       device "MAC"
       profile "auto"
   }
 }
 hint {
   show on
   description "Headphones"
 }
}
ctl.btheadset {
  type bluetooth
}

and

defaults.bluealsa {
    interface "hci0"
    device "MAC"
    profile "a2dp"
}

I even tried changing the first configuration to pcm.!default, but nothing helped...

Anyone has any idea?