Volumio 3 Beta test: New init

[Camelot631]

Hi
Thanks for the feedback.

I installed BT from the forum here:

Bluetooth Speaker Plugin

Hi, thank you! I ended up trying bluetoothctl yesterday and it asked for PIN so I was able to pair it (I see the device even in the plugin). Now, despite being connected, I’m not getting any sound from the speaker so now I’m in the process of solving this. Interesting info about PIN obsolescence, I didn’t know that. But still every now and then I get a request for “0000”, “1234” and these are definitely newer devices than 2.1 so probably there are devices which don’t respect or su…

But post 190 doesn’t work for me. No matter which Volumio version:

Bluetooth Speaker Plugin

Update: I realized that playback with volumio3 and latest version of this plugin is actually a lot better on my JBL Flip 6 compared to volumio2 (version from #149). But still, depending on the source (podcast, local, spotify), playback on JBL Flip 6 was a bit choppy, while the old Bose Color SoundLink worked flawless. I was able to solve this issue for volumio3 by updating to the latest bluez-alsa. To do so, one has to change only two lines in the file “install.sh” inside “bluetooth-controller…

An error message appears when executing “ExecStart” and then in the volume that “bluez-alsa” does not work…

I’ll test IR with USB when I get the part…