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<body lang="EN-GB" link="#55bcea" vlink="#cfd8dc" style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;" bgcolor="#29353b" text="#cfd8dc"><div>Hi Bob,</div><div><br></div><div>Run pavucontrol on the commandline, not sure it installs by default with pulse (but should).</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck!</div><div><br></div><div>Matt</div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 2020-04-23 at 21:45 +0000, Bob Redknap via Sclug wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Just a follow up. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The good news …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I used the Software Manager on Peppermint 3 to install PulseAudio (again), along with various pulse addons and plugins from a long list of options, if the name suggested a link to Bluetooth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">After rebooting, I opened up the Bluetooth Manager shortcut from the desktop. It already saw the BT speaker from previous pairings, and when I selected a music track from an audio CD it did play
it through the BT speaker ! Amazing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">But it was too loud and the default desktop volume control moved up and down, and did nothing. A pop-up said to use a volume control on a pulseaudio mixer, but I can’t see the mixer anywhere. Maybe
it’s a command line thing.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The bad news …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I turned off the BT speaker, turned it back on … and it won’t play.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">At least I did hear something. Getting closer …<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Bob.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-US">From:</span></b><span lang="EN-US"> Steven De Souza-Wilson <steven@desouza-wilson.com>
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<b>Sent:</b> 23 April 2020 13:43<br>
<b>To:</b> Bob Redknap <r.s.redknap@reading.ac.uk><br>
<b>Cc:</b> sclug@sclug.org.uk<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [sclug] linux Bluetooth problem<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Hi Bob <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">First thing i would do is confirm thst the speaker is workong, by pairing to a phone. I have actually had this start a similar speaker start working with other devices in tbe
past <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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---- On Thu, 23 Apr 2020 13:11:50 +0100 <b><a href="mailto:sclug@sclug.org.uk">sclug@sclug.org.uk</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Hello Sclug,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">From a long-time not-so-active member on this list, I would be grateful for any suggestions on how I might fix a
Bluetooth problem.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I have Peppermint 3 (on a couple of old tower boxes with different m/b’s: one is a Dell Dimension 2400 and the other
a hybrid) and an unused Bluetooth speaker. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Sound from an audio CD comes out of the headphone socket and ‘Bluetooth Manager’ does pair and talk to the BT speaker
saying ‘success’ when prompted, and it shows bytes have passed up and down the link. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">But no sound ever reaches the BT speaker.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I can activate sound on the command line using e.g. aplay test.wav and this comes out of the headphone socket OK.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I think maybe it needs an extra plugin/addon/widget but I don’t know which one.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Peppermint 3 doesn’t seem to have a Sound settings in in its Prefs menu either, which might have been useful to tell
it to use a BT output device.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I tried installing a Pulseaudio PAV volume control thing but it didn’t help. In fact, I had to delete pulseaudio
altogether on one of the tower boxes to get any sound out of the headphone socket.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I would like to stay with Peppermint 3 and ‘Bluetooth Manager’ if possible, but I do have a variety of live Linux
discs with any number of distros, and I would be happy to try one if I knew which one might work with a BT speaker, without a lot of extra fiddling around.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I did try installing parts of bluez, or all of it, but it got a bit confusing, and I didn’t see any GUI control,
or how to make it work. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I have tried googling around but no good result so far.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I’m hoping there might be a diagnostic audio utility to run.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">I have tried VLC, and a few other audio apps but they don’t seem to find the BT device I guess.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Thanks very much for any reply,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif">Bob<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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