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Problem: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter)
16th May, 2016, 09:36 PM
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RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter)
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Bluetooth audio is not supported on OpenELEC. What? in such a modern OS!? ..my laptop/desktop/phone/tablet/etc. has supported this for years!!!
Yup we agree it is a little stupid, but (and it's a big but) supporting Bluetooth audio under Linux requires pulse audio (not alsa) and to use pulse you must compile Kodi to exclusively use pulse audio. If you do this Bluetooth audio works (yay!) but pulse only supports 2-channel stereo output so you lose all the multi-channel (5.1, 7.1, etc.) output capabilities in Kodi (boo). As multi-channel support is rather fundamental to a mediacentre distro like OpenELEC and the project team does not have the manpower to release both normal and pulse builds; we only release builds compiled to use alsa that include multi-channel audio support.
Should things ever change to make Bluetooth audio a sensible addition we will add support, but for the foreseeable future this is not going to happen.

However, there is a reported fix for bluez5 that will enable it - that is reported to be working in OE 7 beta 1.

Yep: It works in OE 6.95.3 so there must be a fix in bluez5 somewhere.

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Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 30th Apr, 2016, 12:12 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 30th Apr, 2016, 04:11 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - BreadPit - 7th Feb, 2019, 08:17 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 8th Feb, 2019, 06:29 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 30th Apr, 2016, 05:10 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - schiway - 10th May, 2016, 03:35 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 12th May, 2016, 11:02 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 10th May, 2016, 07:54 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - schiway - 12th May, 2016, 06:42 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 12th May, 2016, 07:38 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - schiway - 12th May, 2016, 08:32 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 13th May, 2016, 12:05 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 13th May, 2016, 12:23 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 13th May, 2016, 12:31 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 13th May, 2016, 12:48 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 13th May, 2016, 01:11 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 13th May, 2016, 03:16 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - schiway - 13th May, 2016, 04:18 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 13th May, 2016, 04:43 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - schiway - 14th May, 2016, 03:25 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 15th May, 2016, 01:12 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - schiway - 15th May, 2016, 04:53 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 15th May, 2016, 05:52 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - schiway - 15th May, 2016, 11:56 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 16th May, 2016, 02:58 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 16th May, 2016, 03:20 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 16th May, 2016 09:36 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 16th May, 2016, 11:56 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - schiway - 18th May, 2016, 02:35 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 18th May, 2016, 02:57 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 20th May, 2016, 11:20 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 21st May, 2016, 12:07 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 21st May, 2016, 12:30 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - schiway - 21st May, 2016, 02:10 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - f1vefour - 21st May, 2016, 06:26 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 1st Jun, 2016, 10:53 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 2nd Jun, 2016, 02:06 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 2nd Jun, 2016, 03:43 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 2nd Jun, 2016, 04:03 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 2nd Jun, 2016, 04:10 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 4th Jun, 2016, 07:36 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 4th Jun, 2016, 09:52 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 4th Jun, 2016, 10:16 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 5th Jun, 2016, 01:28 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 5th Jun, 2016, 10:29 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 6th Jun, 2016, 03:33 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 5th Jun, 2016, 03:24 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 5th Jun, 2016, 03:29 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 5th Jun, 2016, 03:38 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 5th Jun, 2016, 03:49 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 5th Jun, 2016, 03:52 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 5th Jun, 2016, 07:28 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 7th Jun, 2016, 01:05 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - IriDium - 9th Jun, 2016, 04:18 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - ppianigiani - 28th May, 2021, 10:21 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 29th May, 2021, 05:03 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - ppianigiani - 30th May, 2021, 01:33 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - ppianigiani - 30th May, 2021, 10:15 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 30th May, 2021, 10:32 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - ppianigiani - 1st Jun, 2021, 01:55 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 1st Jun, 2021, 03:20 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - ppianigiani - 1st Jun, 2021, 07:41 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 1st Jun, 2021, 03:38 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 1st Jun, 2021, 09:05 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - ppianigiani - 1st Jun, 2021, 11:36 PM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 2nd Jun, 2021, 04:47 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - ppianigiani - 3rd Jun, 2021, 12:30 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 3rd Jun, 2021, 04:16 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - ppianigiani - 5th Jun, 2021, 12:06 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 7th Jun, 2021, 02:20 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - ppianigiani - 8th Jun, 2021, 01:03 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 20th Jun, 2021, 03:55 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - gkusiak - 28th Nov, 2022, 04:40 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 28th Nov, 2022, 05:05 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - gkusiak - 4th Dec, 2022, 04:19 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - Nachteule - 5th Dec, 2022, 04:32 AM
RE: Bluetooth Audio output (Transmitter) - gkusiak - 5th Dec, 2022, 02:25 PM

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