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dext

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From: Poland, Kraków

Registered: 2008-02-01

Posts: 105

Bluetooth without blueman-applet

I have a sound server, which takes multiple sound sources and outputs them to my headphones. One of the sources is Bluetooth.  It has been working just fine for years. In practice: I've been connecting my phone to the server over Bluetooth to use my headphones.

The server is offline, so I update+restart it every couple of months. I've done it 3 days ago, and now I can't connect over Bluetooth without blueman-applet running.
Server is headless, so I have to run "ssh -Y [server_id] blueman-applet" on my laptop, and now I can connect. If I kill blueman-applet, the connection gets lost.

Nothing changes with hciconfig if blueman-applet is up or down:

hciconfig -a:
hci0:   Type: Primary  Bus: USB
        BD Address: 5C:F3:70:98:64:C4  ACL MTU: 1021:8  SCO MTU: 64:1
        UP RUNNING PSCAN ISCAN 

I've worked around this by running blueman-applet in Xvfb in tmux, but there has to be a better way.