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boina

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From: Barcelona - Spain

Registered: 2011-06-05

Posts: 46

Bluetooth connets with the speaker but disconects when playing sound

Hello all,

For the last few weeks I've had the problem that my bluetooth speakers get disconnected when I try to play a sound.
I can connect the speakers to the bluetooth dongle very easily as usuall.
Here is the output of

systemctl --status bluetooth

after connecting the speakers.

systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
bluetoothd[289]: Bluetooth management interface 1.14 initialized
bluetoothd[289]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.58 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource
bluetoothd[289]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.58 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink
bluetoothd[289]: /org/bluez/hci1/dev_00_0C_8A_88_DB_E0/fd0: fd(23) ready

then I try the following command:

speaker-test

No sound comes out and a couple of seconds afterwards the speakers disconnect from the bluetooth dongle.

systemctl --status bluetooth

systemd[1]: Started Bluetooth service.
bluetoothd[289]: Bluetooth management interface 1.14 initialized
bluetoothd[289]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.58 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource
bluetoothd[289]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.58 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink
bluetoothd[289]: /org/bluez/hci1/dev_00_0C_8A_88_DB_E0/fd0: fd(23) ready
bluetoothd[289]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.58 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink
bluetoothd[289]: Endpoint unregistered: sender=:1.58 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource
bluetoothd[289]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.87 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource
bluetoothd[289]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.87 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink

I have searched a lot on the forums and on the internet but I haven't found anything similar or other people having this issue.
I have tried a different usb bluetooth dongle and I get the same behaviour.
I have also connected the speakers with a cable directly into the computer and then I have nice working sound with speaker-test and any music player.

Here is some information on the packages installed.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Best, José.

pacman -Qs bluetooth

local/bluez 5.50-3
    Daemons for the bluetooth protocol stack
local/bluez-libs 5.50-3
    Deprecated libraries for the bluetooth protocol stack
local/bluez-utils 5.50-3
    Development and debugging utilities for the bluetooth protocol stack
local/pulseaudio-bluetooth 12.2-2
    Bluetooth support for PulseAudio
local/sbc 1.3-2.1
    Bluetooth Subband Codec (SBC) library

pacman -Qs pulse

local/libao 1.2.2-2
    Cross-platform audio output library and plugins
local/libpulse 12.2-2
    A featureful, general-purpose sound server (client library)
local/pulseaudio 12.2-2
    A featureful, general-purpose sound server
local/pulseaudio-alsa 2-4
    ALSA Configuration for PulseAudio
local/pulseaudio-bluetooth 12.2-2
    Bluetooth support for PulseAudio
local/pulseaudio-jack 12.2-2
    Jack support for PulseAudio