[pulseaudio-discuss] Using pulseaudio (bluetooth) from a systemd service

[Becker Béla]

On 2021. október 9., saturday 0:45:51 CEST Federico Milano wrote:
> 3. If I run PA as a system wide service, then I cannot connect to
> bluetooth: PA server rejects the client connection. The pulse user is in
> the bluetooth, audio and pulse-access groups; I have also added the root
> user there too and also my personal user, but I still cannot connect to the
> bluetooth device.

You need to add permissions for the pulse user to access the Bluetooth systems via dbus
Stackexchange with explanation here:
https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/questions/42265/pulseaudio-a2dp-bluetooth-dont-work-in-system-mode-but-work-work-fine-under