After several hours of googling and trying various suggested fixes, I have my bluetooth speakers working and have some hints. Hopefully package maintainers et al can coax them into a more usable form
First and foremost I found the following two URLs of enormous help: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725846 http://askubuntu.com/questions/366032/pulseaudio-not-detecting- bluetooth-headset-automatically The real issue was that module-bluetooth-discover was not loading (and still does not automatically) Test by: pactl list | grep -i module-bluetooth-discover If empty load via pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover Pulse audio will then (hopefully) recognize the device The rest is sketchier since I needed to do this the first time, but not there after First, pulse audio sees the device in the playback menu, normally where you see something like "Built-in Audio Duplex ..." But the first time I tried the instructions in the URL above for associating the device with a2dp, they did not work. Instead, I went in through the bluetooth widget, selected the device, selected audio profile and then a2dp. Then you could select the speakers from the pulse audio control panel Have no idea how to get the pactl load-module to happen automatically, except (of course) I will write a script :) I hope this helps a few ... ** Bug watch added: Debian Bug tracker #725846 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=725846 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1199059 Title: A2DP audio sink devices failed to work with "bluetoothd : Unable to select SEP" in system log. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/1199059/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
