{"id":147,"date":"2016-02-15T22:53:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T21:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wpethzprd.ethz.ch\/daesters\/?p=147"},"modified":"2016-11-07T16:39:42","modified_gmt":"2016-11-07T15:39:42","slug":"bluetooth-headset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/2016\/02\/15\/bluetooth-headset\/","title":{"rendered":"Bluetooth Headset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have bought a nice bluetooth headset, the Philips SHB 3060.<br \/>\nI installed it on Fedora 23 and it worked like a charm.<br \/>\nHowever, on Ubuntu Gnome 15.10, I was getting frustrated. In the settings <em>Audio -&gt; Test<\/em> i only could had the option <em>Mono<\/em>. Listening to music sounded horrible.<\/p>\n<p>So, somehow there was either e problem on Gnome 3.16 or in the configuration of Debian\/Ubuntu.<br \/>\nLukely, I found a link and I did what was descripted in the troubleshooting section*<\/p>\n<p>I copy the part, in case the page no longer exists ( (c) to debian.org). Small adaptions are made to match to my configuration<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Troubleshooting<\/p>\n<p>Bluetooth headset is connected, but ALSA\/PulseAudio fails to pick up the connected device or there&#8217;s no device to pick. This happens because GDM captures A2DP sink on session start, as GDM needs pulseaudio in the gdm session for accessibility. For example, the screen reader requires it.<\/p>\n<p>In order to prevent GDM from capturing the A2DP sink on session start, edit \/var\/lib\/gdm<del><\/del>\/.config\/pulse\/client.conf (or create it, if it doesn&#8217;t exist):<\/p>\n<p>autospawn = no<br \/>\ndaemon-binary = \/bin\/true<\/p>\n<p>After that you have to grant access to this file to Debian-gdm user:<\/p>\n<p># chown gdm:gdm \/var\/lib\/gdm\/.config\/pulse\/client.conf<\/p>\n<p>In order to auto-connect a2dp for some devices, add this to \/etc\/pulse\/default.pa:<\/p>\n<p>load-module module-switch-on-connect<\/p>\n<p>Reboot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>*I also installed blueman, no idea whether that might had helped<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have bought a nice bluetooth headset, the Philips SHB 3060. I installed it on Fedora 23 and it worked like a charm. However, on Ubuntu Gnome 15.10, I was getting frustrated. In the settings Audio -&gt; Test i only could had the option Mono. Listening to music sounded horrible. So, somehow there was either &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/2016\/02\/15\/bluetooth-headset\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bluetooth Headset&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[759],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethz.ch\/daesters\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}