It all suddenly decided to start working... I'm clueless of what changed, it's bothering me that I don't know why, BUT, module-bluez5-device was not loaded. So, at least I know that that isn't necessary apparently.. For now all is OK, just hope I get a bit more fluent in Pulse towards the future ;-) On 20 October 2017 at 21:28, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk at iki.fi> wrote: > On Fri, 2017-10-20 at 16:50 +0200, Sjoerd Venema wrote: > > I'm running a system wide PulseAudio daemon, which is working. Now I'd > like > > to play audio from my phone over bluetooth. > > > > In system.pa I'm loading module-bluetooth-policy and > > module-bluetooth-discover. When I check what's loaded, I also see > > module-bluez5-discover is loaded. > > > > However, I think, that what's missing is module-bluez5-device, which I > > assume is going to be the 'card' for PulseAudio. Anyway, I could manually > > load it, if I know the dbus address of the bluetooth device (which I > > don't), but I think it would normally be loaded by one of those bluetooth > > modules. > > > > Which module/process loads this module and what could be reasons that it > > hasn't loaded? > > module-bluez5-device should get loaded by module-bluez5-discover > automatically when any supported audio profile is connected. The > supported profiles vary based on the PulseAudio version, so which > version do you have? Are you trying to play music from your phone, or > call audio? That is, are you trying to use A2DP or HSP or HFP? > > When you load module-bluez5-device manually, do you actually get some > audio? I would expect not. > > See also: > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/ > Documentation/User/Bluetooth/ > > -- > Tanu > > https://www.patreon.com/tanuk > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pulseaudio-discuss/attachments/20171024/f1b68665/attachment.html>