making a bluetooth speaker work

[Jude DaShiell]

Sometimes a bluetooth dongle is needed and sometimes not if one of those 
is part of your hardware.  Whichever the case may be, see if you can get 
the version of the bluetooth card and if that version is less than 3.0 
that could be some or all of your problem.

On Fri, 18 Nov 2016, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 10:44:27
> From: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel at panix.com>
> To: Glenn / Lenny <gervin at cableone.net>, ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: making a bluetooth speaker work
> 
> That's a pulseaudio/alsa problem depending on what you have on your system. 
> So pactl or alsamixer will be an intermediate tool for you to use to adjust 
> output.  A primary command to run for output is aplay -l since that will tell 
> you about all available devices.  What I would do is first shut the bluetooth 
> speaker off and run aplay -l and check output.  Then turn on bluetooth 
> speaker and make sure bluetooth speaker is paired and run aplay -l again. 
> See if the output is any different. If so, you probably know which speaker to 
> set as the default.  Next, study pactl (good luck figuring out their 
> terminology) and learn how to use that if you have pulseaudio installed on 
> your system.  If not, you don't have to deal with pactl or pacmd.  Next study 
> alsamixer and if you don't have pulseaudio installed, adjust your speaker 
> with alsamixer and test with speakertest once adjusted with connected 
> speakers attached and on.  If the connected speakers are silent but your 
> bluetooth speaker runs then run alsactl store as root and then reboot and if 
> all works well, your problem is solved.
>
> On Thu, 17 Nov 2016, Glenn / Lenny wrote:
>
>> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2016 00:42:12
>> From: Glenn / Lenny <gervin at cableone.net>
>> To: ubuntu-accessibility at lists.ubuntu.com
>> Subject: making a bluetooth speaker work
>> 
>> Hi,
>> I am running Ubuntu 16.04 on an Intel NUC PPYH.
>> I have been using a regular speaker on it, but I want to use an Anker 
>> pocket Bluetooth Speaker.
>> I got it found and configured from the Bluetooth manager, and in sound in 
>> control center, I can test it fine.
>> But I cannot get system sounds or Orca to speak from it, the audio only 
>> comes through connected speaker.
>> So how does one get it to default to the bluetooth speaker?
>> As mentioned, it works, as the left and right test sounds come from it, but 
>> that is the only thing I can get it to do so far.
>> Thanks for any assistance.
>> Glenn
>
>

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