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Add tutorial: setting-up Bluetooth - PulseAudio #24

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### Overview
Debian jessie is using BlueZ 5 and PluseAudio 5, which are fairly new.
There were major breaking changes in these versions.
Most stuff you find on the Internet will be for BlueZ 4 and PulseAudio 4,
so watch out, those configurations may not work.

BlueZ 5 dropped support for alsa, see [note 1],
so the solution for now is to use PulseAudio, until someone updates some bluez-alsa project for BlueZ 5.

PulseAudio 5 only supports the A2DP profile and not HSP/HFP see [note 2],
although it is under development see [note 3].

The A2DP profile supports:
`UUID: Audio Source`
`UUID: Audio Sink`

### How to get PulseAudio working with Bluetooth
**This should all be done as root**

1 Install pulseaudio:

`apt-get install --no-install-recommends pulseaudio pulseaudio-module-bluetooth`

2 Create a systemd service for running pulseaudio as the pulse user.
Save the following lines as `/etc/systemd/system/pulseaudio.service`
```
[Unit]
Description=Pulse Audio

[Service]
Type=simple
ExecStart=/usr/bin/pulseaudio --system --disallow-exit --disable-shm
```
and reload systemd with `systemctl daemon-reload`

3 Give the `pulse` user permission to use Bluetooth.
Save the following lines to `/etc/dbus-1/system.d/pulseaudio-bluetooth.conf`
```
<busconfig>

<policy user="pulse">
<allow send_destination="org.bluez"/>
</policy>

</busconfig>
```


4 Paste the following lines to the **end** of `/etc/pulse/system.pa`:
```
### Automatically load driver modules for Bluetooth hardware
.ifexists module-bluetooth-policy.so
load-module module-bluetooth-policy
.endif

.ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so
load-module module-bluetooth-discover
.endif
```

5 Start the systemd service: `systemctl start pulseaudio.service`

6 Run bluetoothctl to connect the device.
You only need to do the pairing stuff once.
Be sure to substitute the address of the actual device your are connecting to.
Here are the commands:
```
agent on
default-agent
scan on
pair 11:11:11:11:11:11
trust 11:11:11:11:11:11
connect 11:11:11:11:11:11
```
7 Now, you should be able to play sound from a remote device on your EV3 without any further configuration.

8 To play sound from the EV3 on a remote device, there are a few more steps.
* add `root` and your own non-root user(s) to the `audio` and `pulse-access` groups:
`usermod -a -G pulse-access,audio root`
`usermod -a -G pulse-access,audio myuser`

* Run `pactl list cards`.
The end of the output should look something like this:
```
Card #1
Name: bluez_card.00_17_E7_BD_1C_8E
Driver: module-bluez5-device.c
Owner Module: 14
Properties:
device.description = "BlueZ 5.23"
device.string = "00:17:E7:BD:1C:8E"
device.api = "bluez"
device.class = "sound"
device.bus = "bluetooth"
bluez.path = "/org/bluez/hci0/dev_00_17_E7_BD_1C_8E"
bluez.class = "0x0c0000"
bluez.alias = "BlueZ 5.23"
device.icon_name = "audio-card-bluetooth"
Profiles:
a2dp_source: High Fidelity Capture (A2DP Source) (sinks: 0, sources: 1, priority: 10, available: yes)
a2dp: High Fidelity Playback (A2DP Sink) (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 10, available: yes)
off: Off (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority: 0, available: yes)
Active Profile: a2dp
Ports:
unknown-output: Bluetooth Output (priority: 0, latency offset: 0 usec)
Part of profile(s): a2dp
unknown-input: Bluetooth Input (priority: 0, latency offset: 0 usec)
Part of profile(s): a2dp_source
```

* The active profile probably doesn't say `a2dp`, although in the output above it already has been set.
So set it by running:
`pactl set-card-profile 1 a2dp`
The "1" in this command is the number of the BT card from the output above.

9 Now you can play sound using paplay.
Example:
`paplay -d bluez_sink.00_17_E7_BD_1C_8E /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav`
Possibly error messages like `xcb_connection_has_error() returned true` have been seen and not explained.
But there seems to be no ill effect on BT audio.
Using my simple non-root user I get:
`Failed to create secure directory (/run/user/0/pulse): Permission denied`
but playback **does** work.





[note 1]: http://git.kernel.org/cgit/bluetooth/bluez.git/commit/?id=4ff9b99292eca193dc0c149722328cb0b1ab0818
[note 2]: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/5.0/
[note 3]: http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/commit/?id=1f0de01bfc85f92785fcd2f0e863e471af7e6ace