Unable to connect to bluetooth speaker on Bionic64

[mohittomar13]

Hi, I tried many things, also tried to get help from stackoverflow and murga forums but nothing is working.

My Problem:
I want to connect my bluetooth headphones to my laptop as the wired one recently stopped working. I used the builtin jankybluetooth and followed the instructions there. It worked and I was able to watch videos on palemoon (ALSAPCM=pcm.puppybt palemoon). But as usual firefox was still not working with audio . Anyways, then I closed the lid of my laptop and went to eat. Later when I came back I tried to again connect. But now when I start the bluetooth the bluetoothctl starts and there is no default device shown.

I tried many things to fix this but to no avail.

Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance

[mohittomar13]

I also just realised that the sound is not working now on Firefox and Palemoon both. Before it was working. If I play videos on MPV Media player then there is sound but not on palemoon and firefox. I think I should try some other puppy distribution as one thing or the other keeps on breaking on Bionic pup any suggestion?

I'm getting this error on VLC

[mohittomar13]

The sound is back again on both firefox and palemoon and also on vlc. I de-select the card in settings and then re-selected the same card, and that fixed the issue. But jankybluetooth is still not able to find the default device.

[Geek3579]

I struggled connect both my devices (headphones) and found using Jankys Bluetooth onerous.

However, I have been using DPupBuster64 with either JWM or Mate Desktop for the last few weeks. Both run bluetooth quite well, and there is a more simple setup procedure which is very reliable. Having Pulseaudio on board is a bonus. Try it for yourself.

[wiak]

Having Pulseaudio on board is a bonus. Try it for yourself.

That's the thing. Despite all the years of negativity about pulseaudio, since I started always including it in my own distro builds I have saved many an hour and more trying to get audio working. Pulseaudio, often just seems to auto-magically correctly identify my audio hardware and configure it correctly. Well worth the few extra MB of underlying software IMO. Oh well, each to their own I suppose. Fact is, I just can no longer be bothered wasting my time trying to fix up underlying raw alsa config files - I don't know how pulseaudio works so well for me in that auto-configuring sound sense, but it does. But maybe Arch Linux just configures it all particulary well (I'm using pulseaudio by default with WeeDogLinux Arch64 flavour - and, per Arch Linux fashion, systemd... oh horror of horrors I've heard - but that too works wonderfully in my experience).