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Connect Raspberry PI 3 B to Bluetooth speaker and microphone
I have Bluetooth speaker which has microphone in it, when I use it with iPhone and my PC, the microphone works fine.
Now I connected it to Raspbian on Raspberry PI 3 B via inbuilt bluetooth, speaker ...
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RPI 3 as bluetooth a2dp receiver sound cuts intermittently
All the tutorials around the topic are outdated, but following the general ideas of it I managed to get the RPI 3 receiving audio through bluetooth:
The latest raspbian version at the moment, Jessie ...
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need help getting the pi to work as a bluetooth source
So I got me a Pi 3B and I'm using the Bluetooth build into it.
after some tinkering around I made some progress towards this goal but I've hit a roadblock and don't know how to continue from here.
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Bluetooth Blues
I've discovered again that cursing and swearing at inanimate objects doesn't actually improve things, so I'll try posting a question.
A couple of months ago I attempted a fairly ambitious project (...
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Raspberry Pi 3, can't connect to more than one bluetooth speaker via pulseaudio
I'm trying to get two bluetooth speakers connected via the native bluetooth controller. The first one connects and plays audio just fine. The second one never connects.
Since I've searched and found ...
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Pulseaudio / A2DP Bluetooth don't work in system mode, but work work fine under "pi" user
I'm running Jessie version on Raspberry Pi2. I'm trying to install Pulseaudio 8 from the source, but having problems running it in system mode with Bluez5 with A2DP support.
On startup in system-wide ...
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Connecting a headless Pi Zero W to a bluetooth speaker
Edit: The problem does not occur using another bluetooth speaker. As that speaker is also the one I'm planning on using, the question is now only of academic interest.
I'm trying to set up a small ...
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Bluetooth disconnects when SSH connection closes (RPi Zero 2)
I am trying to use a headless Rpi Zero 2 (Raspian 11) for bluetooth audio streaming.
I can establish a connection to a bluetooth speaker using bluetoothctl connect XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX from an SSH ...
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Chopping audio over bluetooth with PulseAudio
I have an issue with a Raspberry Pi 3B+ and audio over bluetooth, it is configured with PulseAudio and BlueZ to connect my phone on the Pi, it works great but there is minor audio cuts (less than 0.5s)...
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Raspberry Pi 3 bluetooth stops working after a while
I use it to connect to a speaker (as a pulseaudio sink)
dmesg | grep Blue shows the following:
[ 14.034501] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.22
[ 14.034587] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager ...
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Audio from audio source to pipe (stdin/stdout)
I am trying to get an audio stream from Bluetooth to the stdin of fm_transmitter on my Raspberry Pi 3 / up-to-date Raspbian Stretch.
So far, I got FM-Transmitter running with an ICE-Cast-Stream ...
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Bluetooth Input Not Outputting High Quality Audio to FM
I have Raspian Wheezy running on my Raspberry Pi. I have set it up to run pifmplay and output the sound to HDMI - (Pin 4 on GPIO) so that the Pi is now working as an FM Transmitter. This part works ...
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Separate video audio output two Raspberry Pis
I own a projector which is obviously on the opposite site of the room than the audio system. I'd like to keep everything cableless, so one RPI is connected to the audio system, the other one to the ...
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Read Incoming Bluetooth Audio On Pi With Python
this is my first post on here! I am trying to make my raspberry pi 3 a bluetooth speaker which synchronizes beat of the music being played from a phone to an LED light strip. For the LED light ...
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Raspberry Pi bluetooth volume buttons
I have configured my pi to connect and receive bluetooth audio from my iPhone 5c using pulseaudio and bluez. How do I use my volume buttons from my iPhone to control the output of the audio from my pi?...
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How to stop pulseaudio from deleting your .asoundrc file on startup?
I have a Raspberry Pi 4 and have been messing around with Pulseaudio and Alsa a lot lately. I wrote an asoundrc file which I want the system to run every time it's on. However, Pulseaudio keeps ...
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Direct sound playback via HDMI with sound input from Bluetooth Mic
I've connected my Raspberry Pi to a TV via HDMI, by default the sound output is through TV speakers via HDMI.
I installed pulseaudio and successfully connected a Bluetooth headset [samsung HM1100] to ...
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pulseaudio:"Denied access to client with invalid authentication data"
I'm running Debian Stretch on a RPi 3 and to play audio via my bluetotth box without any luck. This is basically what I did:
https://github.com/davidedg/NAS-mod-config/blob/master/bt-sound/bt-sound-...
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Can't get bluetooth headphones working
I'm trying to get bluetooth headphones working with my pi. My setup uses pulseaudio. When I try to load the pulseaudio module I get:
$ sudo pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover
Failure: Module ...
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Bluetooth audio issue
I'm running a 'bullseye Lite' system (i.e. no GUI), and trying to get it to play audio through a connected Bluetooth speaker. I'm not having much luck. I tried following an earlier approach (worked on ...
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I want to allow two instances of mPlayer to play music over a single bluetooth link to a speaker
I have an application which makes two uses of playing two files at the same time. The first is where it plays a white-noise file very quietly and continuously so that the sound-card does not go to ...
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How to get song information using PulseAudio?
I want to have a script that is continuously running in the background while I connect my phone via Bluetooth to play music. I need the script to get the total time length of the track, the current ...
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Pulseaudio 6.0 on raspbian jessi
Is there any way to have pulseaudio 6.0 or above working on raspbian system? The thing is that last jessie version comes with pulseaudio 5.0 and this version does not support HSP/HFP bluetooth ...
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Can I connect to bluetooth audio and send audio OUT while using an external sound card for audio IN?
Sometime ago I used this helpful tutorial: How can I use an external USB sound-card and set it as default?
to set my external USB sound card as my default. This has been great for me as I use external ...
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Route native Alsa app audio to bluetooth speaker with Pulseaudio?
I have an app that only supports Alsa, and I want to route its audio to a Bluetooth speaker. I'm attempting to use Pulseaudio to do it if that is possible.
The Bluetooth speaker is paired and I can ...
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Mopidy with PulseAudio sound over TCP
So I have been struggling with this for a while now and looked everywhere for solutions.
I have installed Mopidy with Spotify extension on my Raspberry Pi 3B but I can't seem to get the pulseaudio ...
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Bluetooth as a virtual audio device (input)
I am trying to setup this audio-reactive-led-strip library but with Bluetooth audio as the input. I have so far, got my LED strip to work with the standard strandtest.py and have also successfully ...
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Connecting to Bluetooth speaker only works in X, not in terminal
I am running pulseaudio -D to start pulseaudio as a daemon, then running sudo bluetoothctl, connect to connect to the bluetooth speaker (it has already been paired). When I do this in X11 with a ...
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Unable to select bluetooth device as an audio output after update
am using pi 4 8GB for last 6 months everything was going well. Last week i updated my OS(raspbian). After that bluetooth is not working properly. i can able to pair a device successfully, but am not ...
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No audio output Raspberry Pi3 (Raspbian-stretch)
Update
The below is for Raspbian Jessie and does not work for Stretch
Any help on how to go about getting bluetooth to work with Stretch would be appreciated...
Original question
I am new to Pi ...
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Audio not coming through to external earphones
After following this guide here, I am having no success with the audio from my phone appearing through the audio device connected to my raspberry pi 3. The audio is evidently being transmitted ...
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Raspbian Jessie - How do I properly setup A2DP with Bluez5 and PulseAudio
just purchased my first Raspi. I've installed Raspbian Jessie mainly for Bluez5, since I'm interested in the AVRCP features of Bluez5.
I'm struggling with getting audio to pump out over bluetooth. I ...
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Issues when Using a Pi Zero 2W as a Bluetooth Headset
I'd like to use my Raspberry Pi Zero 2W as a Bluetooth headset to connect with my Android phone with an HSP profile. The speaker and microphone are connected via an external USB soundcard.
After ...
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Send audio output to Bluetooth speaker
I am working on a Python script that lets Raspberry Pi 4 play audio announcements (mp3 format) at specified times. I am using the Python OS library to send the play audio commands to system.
The aplay ...
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No audio from HDMI, Bluetooth, or Jack port (Raspberry Pi 4B)
new user here. Finally got around to using my raspberry pi 4B this week and I'm having troubles getting audio from all 3 methods mentioned in the title. I've researched here and there for hours about ...
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Pi 3 Bluetooth Software Requirements
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 ...
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Audio cracking with VLC and Bluetooth, but works with aplay
I'm trying to set up my Pi (v2) as a WiFi Hotspot and a Bluetooth Audio Module for my car.
The WiFi Hotspot works so far, but the sound over Bluetooth and VLC is only cracking.
When i use "aplay /usr/...
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BlueALSA audio not playing when initiating connection through bluetoothctl, but does play when connection initiated through device
I use a Raspberry Pi 4 as a bluetooth receiver for audio. I set it up with this script and it works well if the connection is initiated through my phone: Click on the name of the raspberry bluetooth, ...
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Bluetooth Connecting two devices
I am trying to set up bluetooth so that I can play music from both my phone and my computer in alternation (ie, if I want to go in the other room on a call where the phone stops playing, i can switch ...
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/tmp has been reported to be read-only filesystem
Environment: Up to dated rasbian.
pi@raspberrypi:/etc $ cat os-release
PRETTY_NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux 9 (stretch)"
NAME="Raspbian GNU/Linux"
VERSION_ID="9"
VERSION=&...
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Bluetooth sink has no audio
I found other questions similar to mine but without a working answer.
On RPi3 with Raspbian Stretch I'm trying to connect to a Bluetooth speaker. It connects but I have no audio output.
pi@rpi(rw):~$ ...
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