I am trying to manually setup my raspberry pi 4 as a Bluetooth audio receiver, but there is no sound playback when I start the bluealsa-aplay service I created. It only works when I run the bluealsa-aplay command from the terminal. And I am not getting any errors in both cases.
I tried changing the user in the service, but that has no effect. Also choosing a different output pcm in the service has no effect.
The command I use:
/usr/bin/bluealsa-aplay --profile-a2dp --pcm-buffer-time=250000 -v 00:00:00:00:00:00
The bluealsa-aplay service:
[Unit]
Description=BlueALSA aplay
Requires=bluealsa.service
After=bluealsa.service sound.target
[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
ExecStart=/usr/bin/bluealsa-aplay --profile-a2dp --pcm-buffer-time=250000 -v 00:00:00:00:00:00
RestartSec=5
Restart=always
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
the bluealsa service
# /lib/systemd/system/bluealsa.service
[Unit]
Description=BluezALSA proxy
Requires=bluetooth.service
After=bluetooth.service
[Service]
Type=simple
User=root
ExecStart=/usr/bin/bluealsa
# /etc/systemd/system/bluealsa.service.d/override.conf
[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=/usr/bin/bluealsa -i hci0 -p a2dp-sink
RestartSec=5
Restart=always
logs
Service status
\u25cf bluealsa-aplay.service - BlueALSA aplay
Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/bluealsa-aplay.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
Active: active (running) since Wed 2021-07-07 12:37:10 CEST; 16s ago
Main PID: 1954 (bluealsa-aplay)
Tasks: 2 (limit: 4915)
CGroup: /system.slice/bluealsa-aplay.service
\u2514\u25001954 /usr/bin/bluealsa-aplay --profile-a2dp --pcm-buffer-time=250000 -v 00:00:00:00:00:00
Jul 07 12:37:10 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started BlueALSA aplay.
from journalctl
Jul 07 12:18:14 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started BlueALSA aplay.
Jul 07 12:18:14 raspberrypi bluealsa-aplay[535]: /usr/bin/bluealsa-aplay: Couldn't get BlueALSA PCM list: The name org.bluea
Jul 07 12:22:08 raspberrypi systemd[1]: bluealsa-aplay.service: Current command vanished from the unit file, execution of th
Jul 07 12:22:25 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopping BlueALSA aplay...
Jul 07 12:22:25 raspberrypi systemd[1]: bluealsa-aplay.service: Succeeded.
Jul 07 12:22:25 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped BlueALSA aplay.
Jul 07 12:22:25 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started BlueALSA aplay.
Jul 07 12:22:58 raspberrypi bluealsa-aplay[1480]: Selected configuration:
Jul 07 12:22:58 raspberrypi bluealsa-aplay[1480]: BlueALSA service: org.bluealsa
Jul 07 12:22:58 raspberrypi bluealsa-aplay[1480]: PCM device: default
Jul 07 12:22:58 raspberrypi bluealsa-aplay[1480]: PCM buffer time: 250000 us
Jul 07 12:22:58 raspberrypi bluealsa-aplay[1480]: PCM period time: 100000 us
Jul 07 12:22:58 raspberrypi bluealsa-aplay[1480]: Bluetooth device(s): ANY
Jul 07 12:22:58 raspberrypi bluealsa-aplay[1480]: Profile: A2DP
Jul 07 12:22:58 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopping BlueALSA aplay...
Jul 07 12:22:58 raspberrypi systemd[1]: bluealsa-aplay.service: Succeeded.
Jul 07 12:22:58 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Stopped BlueALSA aplay.
Jul 07 12:37:10 raspberrypi systemd[1]: Started BlueALSA aplay.
