Raspberry Pi 3 Connecting to Bluetooth audio device on Raspbian Jessie

Question

I am trying to connect to a Bluetooth audio device on fully updated Raspberry Pi 3 running Jessie using the following:

pi@raspberrypi:~ $ bluetoothctl
[bluetooth]# power on
Changing power on succeeded
[bluetooth]# discoverable on
Changing discoverable on succeeded
[CHG] Controller YY:YY:YY:YY:YY:YY Discoverable: yes
[bluetooth]# pairable on
Changing pairable on succeeded
[bluetooth]# agent on
Agent registered
[bluetooth]# default-agent 
Default agent request successful
[bluetooth]# scan on
Discovery started
...
[NEW] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Device Name
...
[bluetooth]# pair XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Attempting to pair with XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
[CHG] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Connected: yes
[CHG] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX UUIDs:
    ########-####-####-####-############
    ########-####-####-####-############
    ########-####-####-####-############
[CHG] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Paired: yes
Pairing successful
[bluetooth]# trust XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
[CHG] Device XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX Trusted: yes
Changing XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX trust succeeded
[bluetooth]# connect XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Attempting to connect to XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed

One the GUI Desktop a popup appears:

Connection failed -
GDBus.Error:org.bluez.Error.Failed: No such file or directory. Try to connect manually.

Both Bluetooth devices I've tried work with other devices

I've run both

sudo hciconfig hci0 up
hcitool scan

and was able to see the device under scan

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Try to do:

pulseaudio --start

And after:

[bluetooth]# connect XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX

Answer 2

This question is pretty old, But even now I had come across similar issue: I will detail you how I was able to fix this for current version of raspbian 10.

(i) Install Pulse audio tool

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-bluetooth

(ii) Start Pulse audio

pulseaudio --start

(iii) Now turn on your bluetooth speaker , and make it discoverable, then type this in rpi terminal

bluetoothctl

(iv) Power On the bluetooth

power on

(v) Set bluetooth to default agent

agent on
default-agent

(vi) start the scan

scan on

Now you will see the list of devices copy the mac address of your speaker

pair xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

trust the device so that next time speaker turns off and on it automatically connects trust xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx and finally connect

connect xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
sudo reboot now

After reboot your device should automatically connect, and any audio should be transmitted,

If not you may have to externally try making bluetooth speaker your default speaker Try this: Go to config.txt and disable snd_bcm2835 default output, type in following command

sudo nano /boot/config.txt

scroll-down till you find dtparam=audio=on and replace it with #dtparam=audio=on save the file using ctrl+O and enter, then ctrl+X. Reboot your pi, sound should be coming out to speaker.

Hope this helps! source: https://rpios.blogspot.com/2020/09/connect-bluetooth-speaker-to-raspberry.html

Answer 3

I had this exact problem .I find that it works if you install blueman and run that. Then run pulseaudio --start. Open up blueman on the devices tab and search for devices. It should then find your device. Click pair and make sure it is set as a trusted device. Then go onto pavucontrol and set the output device to high fidelity A2DP or something similar.

Answer 4

 pulse audio --start
 bluetoothctl
 pair XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
 connect XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX