Bluetooth woes

[sithlord48]

are you trying to have the sound come out the hdmi and your bluetooth device at the same time? if that is a case im not sure how to do that.

[Fester Bestertester]

Yes! Someone finally twigged! I'm DEAF, and I presently use an amp-and-cans (with bass cut, treble boost) here at the computer, and also at the TV. The TV has an aux out independent of the remote's controls (audio from the set's speakers can be set to family's comfort or muted and I still get sound from the amp-and-cans), but in either case I spend my days with cans over my ears, which isolates me from family (wife and grandson). The TV has no bluetooth, so I'm stuck there, but here at the screen I just might have a little more social interaction from just muting or 'backgrounding' the Streamer or the content being sent that way, and if family want in on what I'm doing they can listen in via the amp (no cans needed there ). There is a TV add-on for the Streamer, but it's expensive. As long-term beneficiary I can't afford that. Guess I'll have to wait for a 'smarter' TV with either bluetooth or an audio-stream feed down the network...

[sithlord48]

well you can try this suggestion from an old askubuntu

http://askubuntu.com/questions/78174...utputs-devices

[vinnywright]

cool ,,,,,,yes @sithlord48 ,,,this looks like it may do what he wants ,,,,,,,,,I have not tested it yet and do not know yet if it is the *buntu repo ,,,,,,but it was hear in Debian-8



will boot to Kubuntu-15.04 in a few and see

VINNY

[vinnywright]

O,,,ya ,,baby

outputting VLC to all devices now,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,



required a reboot to work

now off to reboot to 15.04 and see if we have it their.

VINNY

[vinnywright]

yes we have it hear in Kubuntu-15.04 as well ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,



and it works ,,,,,,,
but pulls in "ubuntu-mono as well ,,,,,,,<sigh> O well it still works.
VINNY

[vinnywright]

vinny@vinny-Bonobo-Extreme:~$ apt show ubuntu-monoPackage: ubuntu-mono                                                                                                                                                      
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OK "Ubuntu-mono" was not what I thought ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

VINNY

[Fester Bestertester]

mono output noted here as well - and (eventually) simultaneous multi outputs -and the VU indicators showing audio getting this far -BUT! no sound from Streamer, even with the VU pulsing away merrily. WASSUP'ERE

[Fester Bestertester]

Gods! There's something really crook in this setup! I'm getting flickering desktop, settling (eventually) to a splash of multiple desktops' application windows all over the screen no matter which virtual desktop they've been assigned to or which I've selected to view and work in! GRRRRRR! Is this an extreme instance of the frameworks issue that affects desktop assignments on boot-up? Do i have to go back to brain-fart insecure Wind-blows to get something stable? 15.04 was supposed to be stable enough to release ... ?? This does not bode well for 15.10, or for 16.04 being a supposedly LTS release ...I'm reluctant to, in the words of Hex, "+++ re-do from start +++" (read some Terry Pratchett Discworld), but it's looking more and more likely.

[sithlord48]

do u get sound out of the streamers when testing? perhaps you don't have them set to the correct profile

[Fester Bestertester]

OK folks - I seem to be 'boiling the cabbage' over and over. It's really simple: have a bluetooth headset appear as a valid Output Device, and enabled with ALL others with slider (and Mute button) in Kmix.
If there's no real coders here that can do it, send it to a bright spark at/in GSoC or some KDE/Kubuntu conference.

[sithlord48]

you didn't answer my question. it shows as connected but can you get sound out of it when testing. if you can't get sound there you are not gonna get sound during playback. use the Test buttons in the mulitimedia if not try another profile for the device and try again . it seams sometimes the left / right buttons are not working.. if you get sound then you are not outputting to that device durring "normal" playback and will need to double check those settings.

[Fester Bestertester]

Sorry ... Read back some. Yes, It's paired and Connected (as Headset and as Audio Sink), and I do get audio from the Test - just not from anything else! or If I do then nobody/nothing else gets the audio.

I'm a grumpy old curmudgeon that really wants things that are supposed to WORK really do so. Am I really the only deaf old fart that really likes Kubuntu? It does so much beautifully - then hiccups. I've been at this seemingly for weeks, and dragged in Pulse (the only benefit from that being 'simultaneous' output that doesn't seem to want to override the default 'select-one' system.

To my mind, the only use for 'select one' should be for the Test, so only the device being tested gets the test tones. That way, e.g bluetooth (Streamer here) gets the Test tones while HDMI and Analog don't (or any similar combi...). Otherwise all outputs should get the audio from the Master Mix, and be able to control level/mute, each separately, from that.

Anyone getting the picture here?

[Fester Bestertester]

Further news: Connection is only intermittent. I installed blueman-applet, and this gave me a visual clue: a green icon (Connected) pulse in amongst mostly white (Not). There is also a continuing cycle of attempts at Bluetooth Authorisation, and Default Action, Accept or Always Accept seem to have no effect. At one point in this saga I had a stable connection, with audio through the streamer, but a reboot failed to keep it. I'm left wondering if there's something running here that kills Bluetooth. To this end I ran ps -A > pslst.txt, with this result:
...
PID TTY TIME CMD
1 ? 00:00:01 systemd
2 ? 00:00:00 kthreadd
3 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/0
5 ? 00:00:00 kworker/0:0H
7 ? 00:00:00 rcu_sched
8 ? 00:00:00 rcu_bh
9 ? 00:00:00 rcuos/0
10 ? 00:00:00 rcuob/0
11 ? 00:00:00 migration/0
12 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/0
13 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/1
14 ? 00:00:00 migration/1
15 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/1
17 ? 00:00:00 kworker/1:0H
18 ? 00:00:00 rcuos/1
19 ? 00:00:00 rcuob/1
20 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/2
21 ? 00:00:00 migration/2
22 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/2
23 ? 00:00:00 kworker/2:0
24 ? 00:00:00 kworker/2:0H
25 ? 00:00:00 rcuos/2
26 ? 00:00:00 rcuob/2
27 ? 00:00:00 watchdog/3
28 ? 00:00:00 migration/3
29 ? 00:00:00 ksoftirqd/3
31 ? 00:00:00 kworker/3:0H
32 ? 00:00:00 rcuos/3
33 ? 00:00:00 rcuob/3
34 ? 00:00:00 khelper
35 ? 00:00:00 kdevtmpfs
36 ? 00:00:00 netns
37 ? 00:00:00 perf
38 ? 00:00:00 khungtaskd
39 ? 00:00:00 writeback
40 ? 00:00:00 ksmd
41 ? 00:00:00 khugepaged
42 ? 00:00:00 crypto
43 ? 00:00:00 kintegrityd
44 ? 00:00:00 bioset
45 ? 00:00:00 kblockd
46 ? 00:00:00 ata_sff
47 ? 00:00:00 md
48 ? 00:00:00 devfreq_wq
50 ? 00:00:00 kworker/0:1
52 ? 00:00:00 kswapd0
53 ? 00:00:00 fsnotify_mark
54 ? 00:00:00 ecryptfs-kthrea
66 ? 00:00:00 kthrotld
67 ? 00:00:00 acpi_thermal_pm
68 ? 00:00:00 kworker/3:1
69 ? 00:00:00 kworker/2:1
73 ? 00:00:00 ipv6_addrconf
74 ? 00:00:00 kworker/0:2
93 ? 00:00:00 deferwq
94 ? 00:00:00 charger_manager
141 ? 00:00:00 kworker/1:1
142 ? 00:00:00 kpsmoused
145 ? 00:00:00 kfd_process_wq
146 ? 00:00:00 ttm_swap
147 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_0
148 ? 00:00:00 scsi_tmf_0
149 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_1
150 ? 00:00:00 scsi_tmf_1
151 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_2
152 ? 00:00:00 scsi_tmf_2
153 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_3
154 ? 00:00:00 scsi_tmf_3
155 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_4
156 ? 00:00:00 scsi_tmf_4
157 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_5
158 ? 00:00:00 scsi_tmf_5
160 ? 00:00:00 kworker/u8:3
162 ? 00:00:00 kworker/u8:5
171 ? 00:00:00 radeon-crtc
172 ? 00:00:00 radeon-crtc
173 ? 00:00:00 radeon-crtc
174 ? 00:00:00 radeon-crtc
175 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_6
176 ? 00:00:00 scsi_tmf_6
177 ? 00:00:00 usb-storage
178 ? 00:00:00 scsi_eh_7
179 ? 00:00:00 scsi_tmf_7
180 ? 00:00:00 usb-storage
223 ? 00:00:00 jbd2/sda4-8
224 ? 00:00:00 ext4-rsv-conver
271 ? 00:00:00 kauditd
278 ? 00:00:00 systemd-journal
282 ? 00:00:00 kworker/1:2
286 ? 00:00:00 kworker/3:2
311 ? 00:00:00 systemd-udevd
343 ? 00:00:00 irq/34-mei_me
344 ? 00:00:00 kworker/1:1H
345 ? 00:00:00 kworker/0:1H
354 ? 00:00:00 cfg80211
374 ? 00:00:00 wl_event_handle
403 ? 00:00:00 hd-audio1
406 ? 00:00:00 hd-audio0
410 ? 00:00:00 kworker/2:1H
425 ? 00:00:00 kworker/3:1H
455 ? 00:00:00 kworker/u9:0
456 ? 00:00:00 hci0
457 ? 00:00:00 hci0
458 ? 00:00:00 kworker/u9:1
565 ? 00:00:00 jbd2/sda6-8
566 ? 00:00:00 ext4-rsv-conver
568 ? 00:00:00 mount.ntfs
569 ? 00:00:00 mount.ntfs
653 ? 00:00:00 systemd-timesyn
740 ? 00:00:00 accounts-daemon
743 ? 00:00:00 whoopsie
749 ? 00:00:00 cron
756 ? 00:00:00 thermald
761 ? 00:00:00 systemd-logind
762 ? 00:00:00 NetworkManager
771 ? 00:00:00 rsyslogd
776 ? 00:00:00 cupsd
779 ? 00:00:00 bluetoothd
780 ? 00:00:00 ModemManager
781 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon
782 ? 00:00:00 anacron
798 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
836 ? 00:00:00 irqbalance
837 ? 00:00:00 avahi-daemon
842 ? 00:00:00 krfcommd
845 ? 00:00:00 cups-browsed
875 ? 00:00:00 polkitd
905 tty1 00:00:00 agetty
906 ? 00:00:00 sddm
907 ? 00:00:00 wpa_supplicant
911 tty7 00:00:37 Xorg
920 ? 00:00:00 boinc
924 ? 00:00:00 systemd
925 ? 00:00:00 (sd-pam)
941 ? 00:00:00 dhclient
1094 ? 00:00:00 dnsmasq
2762 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
2764 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
2780 ? 00:09:27 setiathome_v7
2781 ? 00:09:26 setiathome_v7
2782 ? 00:09:22 setiathome_v7
2783 ? 00:09:23 setiathome_v7
2803 ? 00:00:00 kded5
2807 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit5
2808 ? 00:00:00 klauncher
2846 ? 00:00:00 kerneloops
2853 ? 00:00:00 udisksd
2864 ? 00:00:00 upowerd
2865 ? 00:00:00 nmbd
2905 ? 00:00:00 smbd
2908 ? 00:00:00 smbd
2933 ? 00:00:00 sddm-helper
2934 ? 00:00:00 systemd
2935 ? 00:00:00 (sd-pam)
2941 ? 00:00:00 kwalletd <defunct>
2943 ? 00:00:00 ck-launch-sessi
3069 ? 00:00:00 ssh-agent
3070 ? 00:00:00 gpg-agent
3071 ? 00:00:00 console-kit-dae
3141 ? 00:00:00 startkde
3144 ? 00:00:00 dbus-launch
3145 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
3242 ? 00:00:00 kwalletd
3246 ? 00:00:00 start_kdeinit
3247 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit5
3248 ? 00:00:00 klauncher
3250 ? 00:00:01 kded5
3262 ? 00:00:00 kglobalaccel5
3269 ? 00:00:00 mission-control
3272 ? 00:00:00 kscreen_backend
3287 ? 00:00:00 kactivitymanage
3294 ? 00:00:00 kaccess
3306 ? 00:00:00 dconf-service
3310 ? 00:00:00 kwrapper5
3311 ? 00:00:00 ksmserver
3314 ? 00:00:08 kwin_x11
3315 ? 00:00:00 baloo_file
3316 ? 00:00:00 kdeconnectd
3317 ? 00:00:00 krunner
3321 ? 00:00:21 plasmashell
3326 ? 00:00:00 polkit-kde-auth
3342 ? 00:00:00 pulseaudio
3343 ? 00:00:00 rtkit-daemon
3353 ? 00:00:00 gconf-helper
3358 ? 00:00:00 gconfd-2
3368 ? 00:00:00 ktorrent
3372 ? 00:00:00 poptrayminus
3384 ? 00:00:00 xpad
3387 ? 00:00:00 at-spi-bus-laun
3390 ? 00:00:00 dbus-daemon
3393 ? 00:00:00 at-spi2-registr
3401 ? 00:00:00 gvfsd
3403 ? 00:00:00 kdeinit4
3407 ? 00:00:00 klauncher
3413 ? 00:00:00 kded4
3418 ? 00:00:00 akregator
3419 ? 00:00:00 dolphin
3420 ? 00:00:00 ksysguardd
3427 ? 00:00:00 dolphin
3428 ? 00:00:00 padevchooser
3440 ? 00:00:00 padevchooser
3447 ? 00:00:00 kmix
3452 ? 00:00:00 padevchooser
3453 ? 00:00:00 dolphin
3456 ? 00:00:39 firefox
3501 ? 00:00:00 blueman-applet
3509 ? 00:00:00 kio_http_cache_
3527 ? 00:00:00 korgac
3551 ? 00:00:00 akonadi_control
3553 ? 00:00:00 akonadiserver
3555 ? 00:00:00 mysqld
3579 ? 00:00:00 kuiserver5
3586 ? 00:00:00 obex-data-serve
3660 ? 00:00:00 akonadi_agent_l
3661 ? 00:00:00 akonadi_archive
3662 ? 00:00:00 akonadi_baloo_i
3663 ? 00:00:00 akonadi_birthda
3666 ? 00:00:00 akonadi_agent_l
3667 ? 00:00:00 akonadi_followu
3682 ? 00:00:00 akonadi_agent_l
3683 ? 00:00:00 akonadi_agent_l
3684 ? 00:00:00 akonadi_maildis
3693 ? 00:00:00 akonadi_mailfil
3700 ? 00:00:00 akonadi_migrati
3701 ? 00:00:00 akonadi_newmail
3702 ? 00:00:00 akonadi_notes_a
3703 ? 00:00:00 akonadi_sendlat
3713 ? 00:00:00 cat
3729 ? 00:00:00 cat
3741 ? 00:00:00 cat
3742 ? 00:00:00 cat
3743 ? 00:00:00 cat
3762 ? 00:00:24 plugin-containe
3811 ? 00:00:00 sh
3812 ? 00:00:00 run-parts
3820 ? 00:00:00 apt
3855 ? 00:00:00 sleep
3864 ? 00:00:00 kworker/u8:0
3896 ? 00:00:00 konsole
3900 pts/1 00:00:00 bash
3915 pts/1 00:00:00 ps

...

Any clues here?

[Fester Bestertester]

And again: I just did an update (Muon Updater - I'm not entirely happy with that either, picky old coot that I am). Seemingly a lot of kf5 libs. During the 'downloading' phase, there seemed to be a stable Connect, so I tried it out. Audio, but very intermittent (and, as usual, distorted). There was still downloading when the Connect dropped off, and nothing seems to have changed.