piCorePlayer 8.0.0 - Bluetooth Discussion

[the4anoni]

Hi
I need to click save in settings every time I want to play something via Bluetooth from S10.
Also pCp shows used codec is SBC, while phone shows AAC. If you need logs or something tell me which ones and I'll send them.

[paul-]

Ignore the codec in the web interface for phones…..it’s only implemented for speakers right now.

What is in the log, without pressing the save button.

[the4anoni]

Ignore the codec in the web interface for phones…..it’s only implemented for speakers right now.

What is in the log, without pressing the save button.

01-12 18:35 CET INFO     ---- Caught Connect signal ----
01-12 18:35 CET DEBUG    /org/bluealsa/hci0/dev_redacted/a2dpsnk/source
01-12 18:35 CET DEBUG       HCI:hci0
01-12 18:35 CET INFO        MAC: redacted
01-12 18:35 CET INFO        TRANSPORT:a2dpsnk
01-12 18:35 CET INFO        Writing device string for S10 for pcp-streamer

In redacted there was BT MAC Address of my phone.

[paul-]

So you have the phone configured for streaming.

To be honest using streamer in this manner is a bit tricky, there is a bit of chicken and egg going on here.

Connect the phone,
Play the web stream
Then start music from your phone.

[the4anoni]

So you have the phone configured for streaming.

To be honest using streamer in this manner is a bit tricky, there is a bit of chicken and egg going on here.

Connect the phone,
Play the web stream
Then start music from your phone.

I did like you said (if I understood correctly: connect phone, play something via Squeezebox, then play something from phone). And this isn't working.

[moritzg]

Hi all,

I was using RPi4 built-in Bluetooth before which was working ok-ish. I wanted to switch to using a Bluetooth dongle now and plugged it in and after a reboot it worked. Next day it stopped working so I did a reboot and now piCorePlayer cannot find the bluetooth dongle anymore, even if it worked before, so I know it has been working with this specific dongle.

The error is: "No default controller available" when trying to turn the BT controller on.

Some infos about my system:

- piCorePlayer v8.1.0, linux 5.10.77-pcpCore-v7l (32)
- Generic USB bluetooth dongle (works on other devices), seen as Cambridge Silicon Radio Ltd
- Raspi Bluetooth OFF, Wifi ON

I've tried rebooting, using different USB ports, removing Bluetooth, reinstalling, etc.

It also seems that lsusb doesn't detect my dongle at all (anymore). I think this is the main problem. Do I need to load any extended packages or so? Thank you!

[paul-]

Doesn't sound good for your BT dongle. If lsusb doesn't show it, its not being seen by the system.

Potential problems
Bad Dongle
Bad USB port
Weak Power supply.

[moritzg]

Doesn't sound good for your BT dongle. If lsusb doesn't show it, its not being seen by the system.

Potential problems
Bad Dongle
Bad USB port
Weak Power supply.

Hmm interesting. Just fired up a 3b+ with a fresh pCP installation and it works just fine with the dongle. I'm using the official RPi4 power supply so I'm thinking it's not that either. Somehow I messed up my system I guess.

[paul-]

Hmm interesting. Just fired up a 3b+ with a fresh pCP installation and it works just fine with the dongle. I'm using the official RPi4 power supply so I'm thinking it's not that either. Somehow I messed up my system I guess.

I do have a RPI4 with dead USB ports on it.....everything else works fine. I'm not as careful as I should be when I swap things around for testing, but I'm not totally sure what happened.

[urknall]

There has been no work done on the bluetooth extensions to add APTX. It's on the todo list, just have not got there. That update will happen just through updating the bluetooth packages.

Any update/progress on this one?

Thanks and Greets Reiner