Read the statement by Michael Teeuw here.
No Country (Bluetooth) For Old Men
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Unfortunately, my last post was only partially displayed. I described in detail what was happening. I don’t have the will to retype it.
In short, I got an mp3 to play through the BT speaker but it stopped when the Pi’s BT failed about 3/4 of the way through the song. Unable to reconnect the speaker. Rebooting. I’ll keep you both posted. Thank you both, Sean and d3r
EDIT 5 minutes later
Rebooted, in the RUN CMD window I type start-pulseaudio-x11 because I don’t have it in startup yet. Pulseaudio enables the Volume Control window. Bluetooth connects to the speaker nicely when I right click on the speaker in the Bluetooth Device window. I played the mp3 file again using mpg123. The song started playing immediately but only played 10 seconds before BT failed again. Here is a picture of the Bluetooth Devices window showing the speaker in its frozen state. The activity indicator is frozen as you see it in the picture.
EDIT - 15 minutes later
I’ve determined that BOTH pulseaudio and BT are failing. I don’t know if one is causing the other to fail but both are definitely failing. The Bluetooth Devices window is easy to see because the activity indicator freezes. I know now that pulseaudio fails because the speaker disappears from the Output Devices of Volume Control which is pulseaudio.
Reboot #4! I really hope one of you can give me some advice. Thanks again!
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@d3r
@Sean
With each successive reboot the failure seemed to come sooner and sooner, wherein the crash came before I even got to play the sound file. I’ve had it for the night. Maybe I’ll run into you guys tomorrow.Peace!
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@Mykle1 If you’re on jessie (with pixel), keep reading this post. I think you mentioned you have blueman installed. You don’t need blueman anymore. I would recommend getting rid of it. Pixel comes with pi-bluetooth which is supposed to make things easier for audio. Notice how you have 2 bluetooth icons in your taskbar? They could be conflicting.
Please also see this link https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/another-update-raspbian/ for how to connect the speaker. It should work.
Of course do back up your card in case something goes wrong.Raspbian Stretch also changed some stuff about bluetooth, maybe take a look at that if you have a spare sd card lying around. I personally haven’t tried it yet.
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspbian-stretch/This is how mine looks
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@d3r said in No Country (Bluetooth) For Old Men:
You don’t need blueman anymore
I really can’t wait to try your suggestions. I have other household matters to take care of first (says the wife). I will report back to you later when I’ve tried. Many thanks for your input and advice!
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Finally finished working my butt off today. Now, I take a stab at your suggestions. Wish me luck!
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@d3r said in No Country (Bluetooth) For Old Men:
You don’t need blueman anymore.
Just to clarify, pulseaudio stays? I’ve removed Blueman
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@d3r said in No Country (Bluetooth) For Old Men:
Ya. Pulseaudio stays.
Ok, I thought so. I’ll have an update in a little while
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@Mykle1 you might have to be remove (forget) the speaker on your pi bluetooth and restart the pi again once you remove blueman.
