Receiving Bluetooth stream

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Hi!

I’ve tried to search for help, but so for I have not been able to conclude my question.

Is it possible to connect e.g. a Bluetooth record player to Volumio?
I.e. I have a streming device that uses Bluetooth and I want to connect it to Volumio.
So when I start the player, it connects to Volumio and the sound is played through it.

Any ideas or suggestions?

Cheers,
Thomas

2

With Volumio Premium you can connect a BT player over BT to Volumio.
You need to pair the device first, prior to playing.

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Thanks!
Do you knoow how to pair?
I have Volumio Premium, but I can’t find any reference to BT pairing in the menu nor any plugins to support it.
I can stream from a mobile using BT, but then I pair from the mobile UI, but the record player has no UI.

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Unfortunately I don’t know how to pair your record player.
Volumio has no GUI option to scan BT devices.
There might be a way via shell commands, but that is outside the scope of my support.

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Basic commands on BW are (untested by me, have no device to test):

bluetoothctl
power on
agent on
default-agent
scan on

Watch for Devices

  • You’ll start seeing nearby Bluetooth devices listed in real time.
  • Each device will appear with its MAC address and name (if available).
scan off
pair <MAC_ADDRESS>
connect <MAC_ADDRESS>