On 30.05.2015 20:12, Northern Lights Info wrote: > Okay, here¹s a follow-up. Still no joy. > > I managed to get PulseAudio to run logged in as a regular user. I had to > get bluetoothd running on root first by running bluetoothctl. Then I quit > out of it. > Over on the regular user shell, I executed pulseaudio --start -D. At that > point, I was able to run bluetoothctl as the regular user and get it to > respond. I was able to connect to the speaker and the play button on the > speaker lit up and there was a little chirp from the speaker. Running > pacmd list-sinks showed the speaker as a sink. > > Sounds great, right? Wrong. Shortly after, the play button light went > out with three beeps from the speaker and more troubling, PulseAudio shut > down. > > Hi, quite simple, pulseaudio is configured to shut down when it's idle. I worked around this by setting exit-idle-time = -1 in daemon.conf Regards Georg