[Discuss] bluetooth

[smallm at SDF.ORG (Mike Small)]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 12:07:35PM -0500, dan moylan wrote:
> 
> i have recently been given an ivation boomering bluetooth
> speaker and am fumbling about trying to make use of it.
> i started by looking at:
> 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/bluetooth
> 
> but seem to be doing something wrong.  e.g.
> 
> moylan ~[1042] sudo bluetoothctl
> [sudo] password for moylan:
> [NEW] Controller B8:EE:65:34:F2:B4 aldeberon [default]
> [bluetooth]# power on
> Failed to set power on: org.bluez.Error.Blocked
> [bluetooth]# scan on
> Failed to start discovery: org.bluez.Error.NotReady
> [bluetooth]# quit
> [DEL] Controller B8:EE:65:34:F2:B4 aldeberon [default]
> 
> the wiki says to turn the power on with bluetoothctl, but
> that seems not to work.
> 
> what have i missed?

Since no one who knows about this stuff has answered yet I'll ask
if there's any further information in your log files. Those errors
to me sound like bluez is waiting for something else to start up
before it can properly get going.

Unfortunately, the only thing I know about bluez is that it's what
forced Pat Volkerding to finally include PulseAudio in the pending
release of Slackware. Apparently bluez recently made PA a hard
requirement. Say, do you have PulseAudio installed and running
properly?

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Mike Small
smallm at sdf.org