Armbian Trixie/Bluetooth/Pipewire

[Meestor_X]

Can't seem to get bluetooth working with trixie and pipewire.

I can pair & trust, just can't connect.

Failed to connect: org.bluez.Error.Failed br-connection-profile-unavailable

 

Anyone else had this issue?

 

Was working fine on a cubie running bullseye, so next maybe I'll try and older os and see...

[Meestor_X]

Just confirmed. Running bookworm on the same RockPi-S, it "just works".

 

Any suggestions on what happened in Trixie and if there's a fix?

[brentr]

Have you gotten bluetooth working with trixie and pipewire on other Armbian devices?

 

I gave up on pipewire after trying it a year or so ago. 

Too many little audio glitches and bugs.

 

Maybe it's better now?

 

Anyway, if this is unique to the RockPI-S, I'll investigate further.

[Meestor_X]

Hi Brent;

 

YES! I did figure it out, finally. The issue is that almost all information on the web is for the older pipewire and wireplumber which works completely differently than the new versions. Bookworm used the "old way" and Trixie uses these new versions for which there isn't much info. Compounding the issue is that most information is regarding desktop versions of Linux, not headless like I run.

 

So, when you use bluetooth on linux, wireplumber auto-creates profiles and pw nodes. Or at least it's supposed to. It wasn't creating these profiles because I was missing a conf file which is only needed when your NOT running on desktop, AFAICT.
 

Add this file:

/etc/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/50-bluez-no-seat.conf

wireplumber.profiles = {
  main = {
    monitor.bluez.seat-monitoring = disabled
  }
}

 

If you do that, all of sudden, bluetooth "just works". Took forever to find that stupid little piece of information.