[pulseaudio-discuss] bluetooth source not created

[Alexander E. Patrakov]

09.05.2016 17:21, Marco Trapanese wrote:
> I'm running pulseaudio8 and bluez5 in a buildroot environment (RPi3).
> When I connect the smartphone I can successfully pair and authorize
> UUIDs for Advanced Audio Distribution and for A/V Remote Control.
>
> It doesn't ask for Audio Source.
> In fact pactl list sources doesn't show the bluetooth source, thus I
> cannot loopback with the local sink.
>
> The daemon is started in this way:
>
> pulseaudio --system --daemonize --disallow-exit
> --disallow-module-loading --exit-idle-time=-1 --disable-shm --fail

The problem is likely --disallow-module-loading, because module-loopback 
is, well, a module. You can remove this argument if you have no users 
except root on your system.

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Alexander E. Patrakov