I am using Minibian(a minimal Debian based OS), and trying to set up bluetooth so that I can stream audio to a bluetooth speaker from my Pi. What are the minimum packages I need to get bluetooth working?
Looking at the Official Raspbian image(which I was able to get the speaker to work with), I see these installed:
hcitool
bluez
firmware-brcm80211
bluetoothctl
I installed all these and I also installed blueman interface. I was able to successfully pair my device but when I try to connect it works for a second and then disconnects. It then will not connect again. I have pulseaudio installed already and the bluetooth module for it also. Thank you in advance.
Update: I noticed when I run connect MAC
in bluetoothctl, where MAC is the BT address of the speaker, it fails; I then ran cat /var/log/syslog
and it said:
bluetoothd[5556]: a2dp-sink profile connect failed for 00:1D:43:6D:03:26: Protocol not available
I searched that error and found an Arch Wiki and their suggestion was that either pulseaudio-bluetooth is not installed or pulseaudio needs to be restarted, or the module should be loaded with pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover
. I already have the first installed, the second did not work, and the last gave access denied.