bluetoothopensusepulseaudiospeaker

OpenSUSE 15.0 LEAP pulseaudio unable to detect bluetooth speaker

I would like to stream my music through my Bluetooth speaker but PulseAudio can't see the speaker. When I open the sound settings (pavucontrol) I can't change the output device to my speaker since it's not displayed.

What I already checked

It worked a couple months ago without any issue but now it doesn't. Any advice to force PulseAudio to recognize my Bluetooth speaker?

Setup:

Solution

  • Try these steps to resolve the bluetooth audio issue on Opensuse Linux- These would work in ubuntu and other linux too. I am running on Opensuse linux 15.

    First comment out the line load-module module-bluetooth-discover by editing the sudo vim /etc/pulse/default.pa

    Now you would need to reboot after this change is done. After rebooting, we configure the bluetoothctl by running the following sequence of commands in a terminal:

    >  pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover
>  bluetoothctl
>> power on
>> agent on
>> default-agent
>> discoverable on
>> scan on

    scanon will return with the name of the bluetooth speaker along with a code in the format '11:11:11:11:11:11' - thats ur bluetoooth speakers id. Note that down and use it in the next command trust and connect. 

    >> trust 11:11:11:11:11:11
>> connect 11:11:11:11:11:11
>> scan off

    And these are all thats required to connect to a bluetooth speaker/headphone. YOu can put the above in a script say - connectbluettooth.sh and run it everytime you login.

    Last step change the speakers settings, your applications uses by running the below command:-

    pavucontrol - Change the default audio device to the bluetooth speaker.

    You can see my bluetooth speaker - 'Juarez' set in the pavucontrol tool in the screenshot.

    Screenshot - with Juareze bluetooth speakers