Reply To: ALSA + bluetooth couldn’t be easier with bluealsa…or could it?

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April 6, 2026 at 4:27 pm #200932
anti-apXos
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    Robin wrote:

    Same behaviour when enabling pipewire; they won’t show up in “wpctl status” nor in pavucontrol either.

    To use a bluetooth device with Pipewire, the bluetooth service (bluetoothd) needs to be started before Pipewire starts and Pipewire needs to be started before you connect to the bluetooth device, so make sure you’re following this order.

    It’s basically the same to use bluealsa, bluetoothd must be started before bluealsa and bluealsa must be started before you connect the device. This is one of the reasons I wrote the script, to do this all in the right order. (Though on antix-26 I think the option to start bluetoothd using the script will only work on sysvinit.)

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