No Country (Bluetooth) For Old Men

Mykle1

Do be careful my friend. Google “Stretch firmware kills wifi and bluetooth”. You’ll see the fixes. I think I tried them all

d3r

@Mykle1
Hey,
I was able to get bluetooth audio to work on Raspbian stretch. I tried it last weekend and ran into some issues but I was able to solve(with some help from the raspberry pi forum) it this morning. I’ve had a stable connection for about 3 hours.

Mykle1

@d3r

With MM? Well done, sir!

I’d be interested in knowing what you did to resolve that although I’ve moved away from the Pi for the most part.

d3r

Yes, my pi runs MM with about 10 modules and the amazon alexa sdk.
I documented the process here.
[link text]https://www.raspberrypi.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=66&t=198501(link url)

Mykle1

@d3r said in No Country (Bluetooth) For Old Men:

I documented the process here.

Nicely done!

Still, unless there is some advantage to running Stretch for the purposes of MM, I’d be hesitant to recommend it to anyone. Stretch still has issues, and where BT is concerned, the last versions of Jessie work just fine. You had to jump through some hoops to get BT working using Stretch. A new MM user shouldn’t have to do that or may not be able to. The last version of Jessie handles MM perfectly and BT out of the box. Of course, this is just my opinion. :-)

d3r

@Mykle1 I agree with you on that.
There’s no reason to upgrade to stretch unless you really need to. In my case, I had to upgrade to stretch because the latest alexa sdk doesn’t support jessie. When I say upgrade, I moved every thing to a new card.
My pi zero runs pihole + open vpn and is still on jessie. No reason to switch that one unless the foundation stops releasing updates for jessie.