[Discuss] bluetooth

[jdm at moylan.us (dan moylan)]

mike small writes:
>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?

ran bluetoothctl power on and found this using journalctl -f

Jan 28 17:59:13 aldeberon bluetoothd[734]: Failed to set mode: Blocked through rfkill (0x12)

ps shows:
 2113  1000 S<l  Jan25 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start

any thoughts?

tia,
ole dan

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