Re: Configure my headless Debian server as "bluetooth loudspeaker"
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 08:24:12AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> I'd like to let my phone play its music via my home-server's speakers.
> This home-server is a headless OrangePi box running Debian testing (and
> with a bluetooth dongle in one of its USB ports).
>
> I followed https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser for the first steps and
> things seem to be working OK for the pairing part: my USB dongle is
> recognized, I can power it up, make it discoverable, it shows up on my
> phone, and I was able to pair up with it.
>
> But now my phone doesn't seem to consider that my server is able to play
> audio. "bt-device -i" <phone> tells me:
>
> ... UUIDs: [..., AudioSource, ..., HeadsetAudioGateway, ...]
>
> which I understand to mean that my phone can use those two profiles to
> send audio. But "bt-adapter -i" does not list those (or anything
> similar), which I understand to mean that I somehow need to teach my
> server how to receive audio from bluetooth. I installed
> pulseaudio-module-bluetooth but just installing it didn't seem to make
> any difference and I'm not sure what I else I could do.
>
> [ BTW, I mention pulseaudio because my search lead me to it being part
> of a potential solution, but a solution that doesn't use pulseaudio
> would be fine as well. ]
>
http://blog.stevenocchipinti.com/2012/10/bluetooth-audio-streaming-from-phone-to.html/
Looks like this is relevant for you.
-dsr-
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