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amixra

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Registered: 2022-01-24

Posts: 125

[Solved]Bluetooth Headphones connecting but audio not routing to it.

I am using it from a long time. It used to work almost always. I have Bluetooth disabled by default, so my process of connecting headphone is

 $ sudo systemctl start bluetooth                                                                                                                
[sudo] password for amit:
 $ bluetoothctl                                                                                                                                    
Waiting to connect to bluetoothd...[bluetooth]# hci0 new_settings: powered bondable ssp br/edr le secure-conn wide-band-speech
[bluetooth]# Agent registered
[bluetooth]# [CHG] Controller C8:5E:A9:7E:0B:E3 Pairable: yes
[bluetooth]# connect E6:A1:6C:64:17:13
Attempting to connect to E6:A1:6C:64:17:13
[CHG] Device E6:A1:6C:64:17:13 Connected: yes
[Leaf Bass]# [NEW] Endpoint /org/bluez/hci0/dev_E6_A1_6C_64_17_13/sep1
[Leaf Bass]# [NEW] Transport /org/bluez/hci0/dev_E6_A1_6C_64_17_13/sep1/fd0
[Leaf Bass]# [CHG] Transport /org/bluez/hci0/dev_E6_A1_6C_64_17_13/sep1/fd0 State: active
[Leaf Bass]# Connection successful

Headphone also says :- "Leaf connected" as it used to always. But on playing any media sound comes from laptop speaker not from headphones.
I tried connecting, disconnecting, removing and pairing again. Even rebooted laptop since facing this issue from yesterday. Headphone is acknowledging all connected and disconnected moments and one more thing I have noticed is when I used to adjust volume it was visible in

bluetoothctl

but now nothing happens on adjusting volume (speaker volume gets controlled, bluetoothctl doesn't acknowledges it).

Last edited by amixra (2024-07-30 08:19:25)

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Experiment at-least.

amixra

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Registered: 2022-01-24

Posts: 125

Re: [Solved]Bluetooth Headphones connecting but audio not routing to it.

I installed pavucontrol and set headphones as default. Now I can control sound using keyboard and feedback is also audible in headphone. But media is still not playing through headphones.

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Experiment at-least.

amixra

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Registered: 2022-01-24

Posts: 125

Re: [Solved]Bluetooth Headphones connecting but audio not routing to it.

Solved. Got it connected. I was thinking hard what changes I have done regarding media playing and audio controls just before few days it wasn't working. I recalled that I was controlling YouTube video playing on the laptop using my smartphone (through kde connect). In Multimedia control, there was a devices section through which I could see three output audio, same as in pavucontrol. 2 for built in analog audio and 1 for headphones. It was showing that sound is going through headphones. But I chose built in analog audio and then back headphones one and audio started coming through headphones.

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Experiment at-least.

amixra

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Registered: 2022-01-24

Posts: 125

Re: [Solved]Bluetooth Headphones connecting but audio not routing to it.

Must be a small bug in kde connect which forces track to be played from laptop speaker even when new device was connected to it.

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Experiment at-least.