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Nonas

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Registered: 2026-02-22

Posts: 1

Bluetooth problem. Bluez not recognizing earbuds as audio device

Hi! I'm trying to connect my JBL Wave Flex earbuds to my PC and I can't get them to work.

I'm able to connect them as you will see shortly but when I run

bluetoothctl info

it seams it doesn't recognize it as a audio device:

[JBL WAVE FLEX-LE]> connect C0:72:AE:1A:76:82 
Attempting to connect to C0:72:AE:1A:76:82
Connection successful    
[JBL WAVE FLEX]> info C0:72:AE:1A:76:82 
Device C0:72:AE:1A:76:82 (random)
	Name: JBL WAVE FLEX
	Alias: JBL WAVE FLEX
	Paired: yes
	Bonded: yes
	Trusted: no
	Blocked: no
	Connected: yes
	LegacyPairing: no
	CablePairing: no
	UUID: Generic Access Profile    (00001800-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
	UUID: Generic Attribute Profile (00001801-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
	UUID: Device Information        (0000180a-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
	UUID: Unknown                   (00007033-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
	UUID: Harman International      (0000fddf-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
	UUID: Google                    (0000fe2c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
	UUID: Vendor specific           (65786365-6c70-6f69-6e74-2e636f6d0000)
	UUID: Vendor specific           (66666666-6666-6666-6666-666666666666)
	ServiceData.0000fe2c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb:
  1e d9 f9                                         ...             
	ServiceData.0000fddf-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb:
  92 20 00 00 00                                   . ...           
	RSSI: 0xffffffc9 (-55)
	TxPower: 0xfffffff8 (-8)
	AdvertisingFlags:
  06                                               .               
	LE.Paired: yes
	LE.Bonded: yes
	LE.Connected: yes
[CHG] Device 75:F3:57:0D:2B:FA ManufacturerData.Key: 0x0075 (117)
[CHG] Device 75:F3:57:0D:2B:FA ManufacturerData.Value:
  55 f3 c1 0e 12 1c                                U.....          
[CHG] Device 29:AA:4B:CB:35:35 RSSI: 0xffffffa9 (-87)

I use pipewire btw.

It seams to be a LE device. I've follow the steps on Pipewire LE audio support but nothing...

Last edited by Nonas (2026-02-22 19:06:38)

Preycon

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From: México, D.F.

Registered: 2009-02-14

Posts: 57

Re: Bluetooth problem. Bluez not recognizing earbuds as audio device

Hi! I'm trying to connect my JBL Wave Flex earbuds to my PC and I can't get them to work.

I'm able to connect them as you will see shortly but when I run

bluetoothctl info

it seams it doesn't recognize it as a audio device

Take a look at https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=312202

Try downgrading those packages, sounds related.