Streaming audio to BT speaker

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G’day all,

I am running the latest version of OSMC with Kodi 17.x on a rpi3. I want to stream music to a BT speaker. Is this supposed to work out of the box in this version? I am connected to the BT speaker -no problem there- and I have selected in Audio output “Alsa: Playback/recording through the Pulse audio sound server”. But no sound comes through the speaker despite the fact that it is paired and connected to the rpi3. I also notice that when the Pulseaudio sound server is running it creates havoc with the mediaserver as a whole, everything slows, video streams are super sluggish if they work at all, one can’t play any music, click on a song and it does not even start, the counter sits a 0 forever. I find this all very surprising as a2dp works very well in Linux.

So, please forgive that I don’t have logs etc., my question is simple, is streaming to BT speakers/BT audio systems supposed to work out of the box?

p.s. I tried connecting using the pi’s BT, and with two different external dongles nothing works.

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Not straight out of the box, but I get it working now with some system twisting

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In conclusion, BT streaming does not yet work, is this correct?

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Yes, it works, but not straight out of the box.

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In that case it would be nice to know how you can get it to work, thank you.

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Why do you have to install a2dp, I would have thought that it is part of OSMC, as OSMC is linux based? In any case can you be more specific with instructions after installing a2dp, thank you.

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Click on the post, all explained there

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Click on what exactly? Sorry for seeming a bit daft, but I’m not a forum and social media kind of guy :slight_smile:

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Hi,

Click on “Bluetooth audio on vero4k” in Fzinken’s post

Thanks Tom.

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Thank you. Regrettably it looks like a temporary way to get it to work. Can you confirm that a permanent solution is being sought?

Cheers

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Hi,

Yes a more permanent and stable solution is being sought, a2dp-app is still in testing.

Thanks Tom.

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Thanks mate.

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is this problem fixed in Version 2018.03-2?

Thanks in advance.

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No, currently only fixed in staging/devel which will come with the next stable update.

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So now the latest version is 2018.04-1, isn’t it?
Is it fixed by now?

I’m actually quite confused what the status quo is. I’d like to buy a vero 4k but only if bluetooth audio works reliable.

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Yes

It works reliable, but is still in “testing”

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