mike small writes: >On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:07:35PM -0500, dan moylan wrote: >> >> i have recently been given an ivation boomering bluetooth >> speaker and am fumbling about trying to make use of it. >> i started by looking at: >> >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/bluetooth >> >> but seem to be doing something wrong. e.g. >> >> moylan ~[1042] sudo bluetoothctl >> [sudo] password for moylan: >> [NEW] Controller B8:EE:65:34:F2:B4 aldeberon [default] >> [bluetooth]# power on >> Failed to set power on: org.bluez.Error.Blocked >> [bluetooth]# scan on >> Failed to start discovery: org.bluez.Error.NotReady >> [bluetooth]# quit >> [DEL] Controller B8:EE:65:34:F2:B4 aldeberon [default] >> >> the wiki says to turn the power on with bluetoothctl, but >> that seems not to work. >> >> what have i missed? > >Since no one who knows about this stuff has answered yet I'll ask >if there's any further information in your log files. Those errors >to me sound like bluez is waiting for something else to start up >before it can properly get going. > >Unfortunately, the only thing I know about bluez is that it's what >forced Pat Volkerding to finally include PulseAudio in the pending >release of Slackware. Apparently bluez recently made PA a hard >requirement. Say, do you have PulseAudio installed and running >properly?
ran bluetoothctl power on and found this using journalctl -f Jan 28 17:59:13 aldeberon bluetoothd[734]: Failed to set mode: Blocked through rfkill (0x12) ps shows: 2113 1000 S<l Jan25 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start any thoughts? tia, ole dan j. daniel moylan 84 harvard ave brookline, ma 02446-6202 617-777-0207 (cel) [email protected] www.moylan.us [no html pls] _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
