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What I was doing is looking at other distro that have the BT audio working and seeing what the difference was between them.

Raspbian was the closest to our setup and the only obvious thing was pi-bluetooth. Didn't work either way.

(21st May, 2016 12:30 AM)IriDium Wrote: [ -> ]What I was doing is looking at other distro that have the BT audio working and seeing what the difference was between them.

Raspbian was the closest to our setup and the only obvious thing was pi-bluetooth. Didn't work either way.

I succeed in RetroPie's kodi, But I could only get it work at the first time, after reboot, back to zero;
RetroPie is based-on Raspbian, isn't that the closest distro?

I'm going to follow this and see what happens.

Well I THINK I have got this working reliably. Three times in succession .

However, the quality is appalling. Stuttering and glitches, so not something you'd really use.

(This might be a configuration issue or worse kernel issue.) If so, a new thread is required.

These are the steps I took.


(Thanks to @abdulmueid for the next steps)
I also set the class but it didn't seem to make any difference.

(Where 0xXXXXXX is the class from the previous step

<Turn on BT scan mode>
<Restarts pulseaudio>


After a little wait, something should be heard through the speaker.

After a reboot, it sometimes doesn't connect automatically so rerun the connect xxxxxxx

@IriDium

I'm still struggling with my BT Speaker on RPi3

in bluetoothctl I get


And in syslog I'm getting those strange messages:


Did you ever seen this behavior?

Btw, at my openSUSE 13.1 running notebook the BT speaker is running perfectly (using same command sequence)

Never seen most of those errors. The bluez.error.Failed seems to be related to permissions or not rebooting after installing.

I remember seeing something about X11 in one of the config file, but can't remember where.

All mine was done on a fresh RPI2/3 install on a RPi3 and Amazon BT speaker.

Have you selected Pulseaudio in Kodi and seen that it is running.

Sometimes killall pulseaudio and reconnecting sometimes works.

Are you using RPi3's onboard BT?

After disabling that crappy onboard BT and using my 12 (!!!) year old BlueFritz! BT usb stick I got it working

Sound is ok and do not have any glitches, only using sound over BT and WLAN at the same time is not possible, playing video is extremely stuttering

@Nachteule

Yes onboard!! I have a USB BT dongle, I'll give that a try and see I get the same problems.

I haven't tried BT and Wifi together.

If that works, I'll create a new thread for onboard BT chip problems.

I've just done some testing on Libreelec (Couldn't get any sound output on XBian ) and the quality of the music is terrible on the RPI3 onboard BT controller, whereas using a BT dongle as the controller, the sound quality was acceptable.

So bottom line, the RPi3 BT controller should not be used for audio (Unless you have perforated eardrums or deaf).

(4th Jun, 2016 07:36 PM)IriDium Wrote: [ -> ]I've just done some testing on Libreelec (Couldn't get any sound output on XBian ) and the quality of the music is

Can you tell me what your problem with XBian was/is?

Quote:terrible on the RPI3 onboard BT controller, whereas using a BT dongle as the controller, the sound quality was acceptable.

So bottom line, the RPi3 BT controller should not be used for audio (Unless you have perforated eardrums or deaf).

Yeah, Broadcom WLAN and BT chips are really crap. I have a Hummingboard for testing (has Broadcom WLAN and probably Broadcom BT chip onboard) and never was able to play 720p LiveTV stream over that Broadcom WLAN chip

(4th Jun, 2016 09:52 PM)Nachteule Wrote: [ -> ]Can you tell me what your problem with XBian was/is?

No idea. I've installed everything, added the permissions and rebooted. I can pair, trust and connect successfully, but no output to the speaker.

I'll reflash and start again. (nope same problem - no sound output).

(4th Jun, 2016 10:16 PM)IriDium Wrote: [ -> ]

(4th Jun, 2016 09:52 PM)Nachteule Wrote: [ -> ]Can you tell me what your problem with XBian was/is?

No idea. I've installed everything, added the permissions and rebooted. I can pair, trust and connect successfully, but no output to the speaker.

I'll reflash and start again. (nope same problem - no sound output).

Do you have dtparam=audio=on enabled in /boot/config.txt?

I had to disable this because PA uses onboard sound as default sink

I'll give dtparam=audio=on a try but I also tried it on a cubox-i using the onboard BT with the same result - no sound to the speaker.

BTW: Bluetooth is not enabled by default on the IMX6 image.

(5th Jun, 2016 03:24 AM)IriDium Wrote: [ -> ]I'll give dtparam=audio=on a try but I also tried it on a cubox-i using the onboard BT with the same result - no sound to the speaker.

Oh sorry, my fault. I had to disable it and not uncomment

Quote:BTW: Bluetooth is not enabled by default on the IMX6 image.

Really? Mine is enabled. Hmmm

Is dtparam=audio=on set as default? If not, then I was running a vanilla RPi3 newly flashed image.

IMX6
/etc/default/bluetooth
BLUETOOTH_ENABLED=0

Not something I have set