[pulseaudio-discuss] module-bluez5-device not loaded

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Fri, 2017-10-20 at 16:50 +0200, Sjoerd Venema wrote:
> I'm running a system wide PulseAudio daemon, which is working. Now I'd like
> to play audio from my phone over bluetooth.
> 
> In system.pa I'm loading module-bluetooth-policy and
> module-bluetooth-discover. When I check what's loaded, I also see
> module-bluez5-discover is loaded.
> 
> However, I think, that what's missing is module-bluez5-device, which I
> assume is going to be the 'card' for PulseAudio. Anyway, I could manually
> load it, if I know the dbus address of the bluetooth device (which I
> don't), but I think it would normally be loaded by one of those bluetooth
> modules.
> 
> Which module/process loads this module and what could be reasons that it
> hasn't loaded?

module-bluez5-device should get loaded by module-bluez5-discover
automatically when any supported audio profile is connected. The
supported profiles vary based on the PulseAudio version, so which
version do you have? Are you trying to play music from your phone, or
call audio? That is, are you trying to use A2DP or HSP or HFP?

When you load module-bluez5-device manually, do you actually get some
audio? I would expect not.

See also:
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Bluetooth/

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