I would like to take another stab at getting my blue tooth working.
Does anyone use a bluetooth dongle?
Are there particular brands that are KNOWN to work in Ubuntu?
Thanks.
Does anyone use a bluetooth dongle?
I do. It was not easy to set it up (especially as I had never used Bluetooth before and am not familiar with the settings) but it kind of works.
Are there particular brands that are KNOWN to work in Ubuntu?
I have a list on a french website. Even if you don't read french, you can check if you see your brand/model in the list and I can translate.
Thanks. I used Google Translate.
I have this one which is listed on the site.
Bus 003 Device 008: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)Looks like there are several dongles that are seen as a Cambridge Silicon Radio but it mentions no issue. Yours isn’t recognized on MATE? No Bluetooth icon in the panel? Or does it appear fine and doesn’t work?
EDIT: just noticed that mine is seen by lsusb with the same infos (same ID and name).
andyk_~/Downloads$ lsusb | grep Bluetooth
Bus 003 Device 008: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
There is a Bluetooth icon in panel.
Device added successfully, but failed to connect.
IHip Sound M is showing as device.
For a while I heard some music in my headphones.
I had nothing playing.
I think it was something built into the headphones.
But I can not hear any music using it.
I’m not familiar with bluetooth headphones (only used connection with Android devices) but I guess the dongle itself is working and the issue would rather be with the headset configuration.
If you run the following command, do you see “Name: module-bluetooth-discover”?
pactl list modules | grep blue
If not, try this:
pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover
In MATE’s sound prefs, do you see your speakers/headset in the available outputs?
Yes to first part.
My headphones are not in the available outputs.
Headphones work great with my Android Samsung S5 phone.
And if you run the Bluetooth Devices (might be callde Bluetooth Manager) from the Control Center, do the headphones appear there? If they do, right click → Audio profile and check if they’re on “High Fidelity Playback (A2DP Sink)”.
Have you tried the “Connect to” options?
Connection failed: blueman.bluez.errors.DBusFailedErro: Host is down…
Just in case, check that the PA module is installed but it should be:
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
If you install (sudo apt-get install pavucontrol) and run pavucontrol, does it see your headphones?
I found similar problems to yours on various forums, but so far, nothing very conclusive.
pavucontrol does not see my headphones.
I would be willing to buy another dongle if I was for sure it would work.
I’m not sure the issue comes from the dongle. Just in case, have you tried to connect it to several USB ports?
I tried 4 different dongles in all USB ports.
No luck.
Thanks for your effort. 