[pulseaudio-discuss] Bluetooth Headset Problem with BlueZ-5.38 and Pulseaudio 8.0

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Tue, 2016-08-23 at 19:58 +0700, Hieu Le wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> One strange thing I noticed when debugging this issue is even "pactl list
> sinks|sources short" show Bluetooth's headset sinks|sources properly.
> However, "arecord -L" shows only my internal microphone (missing
> Bluetooth's headset).
> 
> Am I missing something? Or the setup between Pulseaudio and ALSA is not up
> correctly.

arecord is an alsa tool, which will only show alsa devices. Alsa
doesn't deal with bluetooth, so it's expected that bluetooth devices
don't show up in arecord -L.

-- 
Tanu