September 27, 2016
Setting up PulseAudio with Bluetooth
Before I get round to setting up Forked-DAAPD on my Pi, I’ll need to get Bluetooth audio working.
First we’ll install PulseAudio and the Bluetooth Module
1 | sudo apt-get install pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-bluetooth |
Grant many permissions to pulseaudio and audio by adding the root and pi users to the following groups
1 2 3 4 5 6 | sudo adduser pi pulse sudo adduser pi pulse-access sudo adduser pi audio sudo adduser root pulse sudo adduser root pulse-access sudo adduser root audio |
Next we’ll need to amend the system.pa file that PulseAudio uses for configuration.
1 | sudo nano /etc/pulse/system.pa |
Add the following lines at the bottom of the file
1 2 3 4 | ###Enable Bluetooth .ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so load-module module-bluetooth-discover .endif |
Now get PulseAudio running as system. Don’t worry if the first command says “Failed to kill daemon” as it just means PulseAudio wasn’t running already. Eventually we’ll set this to run at startup.
1 2 | pulseaudio -k sudo pulseaudio --system |
At this point PulseAudio is running in your current session, which renders this terminal session unable to do anything else, so open up another connection and login so we can connect the Bluetooth Speaker
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | bluetoothctl power on agent on scan on **Note MAC address of BT Speaker** pair 00:00:00:00:00:00 **Type Pin** trust 00:00:00:00:00:00 connect 00:00:00:00:00:00 |
You should now be connected to your bluetooth speaker so we can configure Forked-DAAPD
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