ALSA and bluetooth audio
by Panagiotis Nik from LinuxQuestions.org on (#4XMGV)
Hello,
Recently I received as a gift a bluetooth speaker. My Slackware64-current desktop (Xfce) is pure ALSA and when I first tried to connect with my speaker trough blueman-manager I received a "protocol error".
Searching for a solution I founded that there's a program called "bluez-alsa" that offers integration between BlueZ >= 5 and ALSA.
There's already a SlackBuild for "bluez-alsa" buit since it was outdated I tweaked it in order to install the latest version of "bluez-alsa" and then I was able to connect with my speaker.
After some changes in my asound.conf I was able to have sound in my speaker although they're some problems:
When I'm in youtube the only way to switch to an other sound source is to close the tab since to stop the player is not enough (I'm using Firefox as my browser.)
Also I need to add the output line in my xfce4-mixer since now is missing and there's no option to adjust the sound level.
I'm wondering if somebody else using "bluez-alsa" and can share more information.
Recently I received as a gift a bluetooth speaker. My Slackware64-current desktop (Xfce) is pure ALSA and when I first tried to connect with my speaker trough blueman-manager I received a "protocol error".
Searching for a solution I founded that there's a program called "bluez-alsa" that offers integration between BlueZ >= 5 and ALSA.
There's already a SlackBuild for "bluez-alsa" buit since it was outdated I tweaked it in order to install the latest version of "bluez-alsa" and then I was able to connect with my speaker.
After some changes in my asound.conf I was able to have sound in my speaker although they're some problems:
When I'm in youtube the only way to switch to an other sound source is to close the tab since to stop the player is not enough (I'm using Firefox as my browser.)
Also I need to add the output line in my xfce4-mixer since now is missing and there's no option to adjust the sound level.
I'm wondering if somebody else using "bluez-alsa" and can share more information.