Re: Painful BlueTooth Audio
This is a linux kernel problem created by whoever made the decision that
speakers must connect through the quarter-inch jack on the sound card by
default. A little more work must have been done to that end since
though I was able to connect usb speakers to a linux box and configure
alsa to use them and was able to reboot and have that configuration
change honored, that was only a temporary condition. Some random reboot
later and I had to plug in the old style speakers into that sound card
again. I suppose Linux accessibility for us screen reader users will
only last until the last sound card with a quarter-inch jack is off the
market at this rate.
On Mon, 13 Oct 2014, Leslie Rhorer wrote:
> I have a little Intel NUC running Debian Jessie whose purpose is to control a multimedia show using DMX for lighting and BLueTooth A2DP for audio. It's a wireless, headless box that sits in a corner and does its job. Well, it should be. The problem is the BlueTooth audio is far from automatic and also far from stable. I would like to be able to turn on the BlueTooth speakers, power up the NUC, start the application, and let it do its thing.
>
> This is not the case.
>
> In the best of times, I have to bring up BlueTooth Manager and manually connect to the loudspeaker. Then I have to bring up Settings => System Settings => Multimedia and select Technical Pro as the default sound device. Then I have to run Pulse Audio Volume Control and select Technical Pro as the output device. Is there any way (preferably a non graphical one) to put all this into one operation? I am ambivalent as to whether it should run automatically at start-up, but I definitely would like to have some way of running it without all the rigamarole on the desktop.
>
> The above procedure is what has to happen, as I said, in the best of times. In the worst, things are much less smooth. One thing that happens regularly is BlueTooth Manager fails to come up properly. The little bouncing icon does its happy little dance of a bit, and then just disappears. An attempt to run BlueTooth Manager again results in an error, saying it is already running. I have to grep for "blue" in the running processes and then kill blueman-manager and blueman-applet. After that, I can usually start the app.
>
> If the unit sits for a while without playing any audio, the link to the loudspeaker freezes, and I have to re-start the loudspeaker and reconnect to it, sometimes manually.
>
> Here is the log for "blue" from Start-up:
> Oct 13 16:51:58 DMXHost kernel: [ 2.638950] Bluetooth: Core ver 2.19
> Oct 13 16:51:58 DMXHost kernel: [ 2.638976] Bluetooth: HCI device and connection manager initialized
> Oct 13 16:51:58 DMXHost kernel: [ 2.638985] Bluetooth: HCI socket layer initialized
> Oct 13 16:51:58 DMXHost kernel: [ 2.638989] Bluetooth: L2CAP socket layer initialized
> Oct 13 16:51:58 DMXHost kernel: [ 2.639006] Bluetooth: SCO socket layer initialized
> Oct 13 16:51:58 DMXHost bluetoothd[619]: Starting SDP server
> Oct 13 16:51:58 DMXHost kernel: [ 7.171984] Bluetooth: BNEP (Ethernet Emulation) ver 1.3
> Oct 13 16:51:58 DMXHost kernel: [ 7.171989] Bluetooth: BNEP filters: protocol multicast
> Oct 13 16:51:58 DMXHost kernel: [ 7.172000] Bluetooth: BNEP socket layer initialized
> Oct 13 16:51:58 DMXHost bluetoothd[619]: Bluetooth management interface 1.6 initialized
> Oct 13 16:51:58 DMXHost bluetoothd[619]: Sap driver initialization failed.
> Oct 13 16:51:58 DMXHost bluetoothd[619]: sap-server: Operation not permitted (1)
> Oct 13 16:51:58 DMXHost bluetoothd[619]: hci0 Load Connection Parameters failed: Unknown Command (0x01)
> Oct 13 16:52:11 DMXHost pulseaudio[1142]: org.bluez.Manager.GetProperties() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "GetProperties" with signature "" on interface "org.bluez.Manager" doesn't exist
> Oct 13 16:52:11 DMXHost bluetoothd[619]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.22 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSource
> Oct 13 16:52:11 DMXHost bluetoothd[619]: Endpoint registered: sender=:1.22 path=/MediaEndpoint/A2DPSink
> Oct 13 16:52:13 DMXHost dbus[634]: [system] Activating service name='org.blueman.Mechanism' (using servicehelper)
> Oct 13 16:52:14 DMXHost blueman-mechanism: Starting blueman-mechanism
> Oct 13 16:52:14 DMXHost dbus[634]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.blueman.Mechanism'
> Oct 13 16:52:14 DMXHost blueman-mechanism: loading Config
> Oct 13 16:52:14 DMXHost blueman-mechanism: loading Ppp
> Oct 13 16:52:14 DMXHost blueman-mechanism: loading RfKill
> Oct 13 16:52:14 DMXHost blueman-mechanism: loading Network
> Oct 13 16:52:14 DMXHost kernel: [ 23.394518] Bluetooth: RFCOMM TTY layer initialized
> Oct 13 16:52:14 DMXHost kernel: [ 23.394535] Bluetooth: RFCOMM socket layer initialized
> Oct 13 16:52:14 DMXHost kernel: [ 23.394549] Bluetooth: RFCOMM ver 1.11
>
> and from pulseaudio:
> Oct 13 16:52:11 DMXHost pulseaudio[1142]: Failed to open cookie file '/root/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory
> Oct 13 16:52:11 DMXHost pulseaudio[1142]: Failed to load authorization key '/root/.config/pulse/cookie': No such file or directory
> Oct 13 16:52:11 DMXHost pulseaudio[1142]: org.bluez.Manager.GetProperties() failed: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.UnknownMethod: Method "GetProperties" with signature "" on interface "org.bluez.Manager" doesn't exist
>
>
> When an attempt to run bluetooth-manager fails, I get this:
> Oct 13 16:52:44 DMXHost blueman-mechanism: Exiting
> Oct 13 16:52:44 DMXHost org.blueman.Mechanism[634]: Exception AttributeError: "'NoneType' object has no attribute 'stdout'" in <bound method Tee.__del__ of <__main__.Tee object at 0xb6d08a2c>> ignored
> Oct 13 16:52:44 DMXHost org.blueman.Mechanism[634]: Starting blueman-mechanism
> Oct 13 16:52:44 DMXHost org.blueman.Mechanism[634]: loading Config
> Oct 13 16:52:44 DMXHost org.blueman.Mechanism[634]: loading Ppp
> Oct 13 16:52:44 DMXHost org.blueman.Mechanism[634]: loading RfKill
> Oct 13 16:52:44 DMXHost org.blueman.Mechanism[634]: loading Network
> Oct 13 16:52:44 DMXHost org.blueman.Mechanism[634]: Exiting
> Oct 13 16:57:06 DMXHost pulseaudio[1142]: Module "module-device-manager" should be loaded once at most. Refusing to load.
>
> A successful load of BlueTooth Manager produces this:
> Oct 13 17:06:11 DMXHost dbus[634]: [system] Activating service name='org.blueman.Mechanism' (using servicehelper)
> Oct 13 17:06:11 DMXHost blueman-mechanism: Starting blueman-mechanism
> Oct 13 17:06:11 DMXHost dbus[634]: [system] Successfully activated service 'org.blueman.Mechanism'
> Oct 13 17:06:11 DMXHost blueman-mechanism: loading Config
> Oct 13 17:06:11 DMXHost blueman-mechanism: loading Ppp
> Oct 13 17:06:11 DMXHost blueman-mechanism: loading RfKill
> Oct 13 17:06:11 DMXHost blueman-mechanism: loading Network
>
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