Bug#818913: pulseaudio: Have to restart pulseaudio after (re)connecting bluetooth speaker

[Felipe Sateler]

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On 21 March 2016 at 13:52, Tony Houghton <h at realh.co.uk> wrote:
> Package: pulseaudio
> Version: 8.0-1
> Severity: normal
>
> I have a Multitech The Block 4.0 bluetooth speaker. I've followed
> <https://wiki.debian.org/BluetoothUser/a2dp>, including adding
> 'load-module module-switch-on-connect' to /etc/pulse/default.pa and it
> basically now works.
>
> However, if I turn the speaker off and then back on later, I have to
> restart pulseaudio (killall pulseaudio) to be able to use it. It shows
> up in pavucontrol's Configuration tab, but its Profile is "Off" there.
> If I change it (to A2DP Sink) it still doesnt show up in Output Devices,
> and if I reload pavucontrol I find the profile has changed back to Off.
> After pulseaudio is killed and restarted the speaker chimes (presumably
> to indicate the laptop has just connected) and becomes available as an
> output device.

Does it work if you restart bluetooth daemon instead?

Also, please attach verbose logs of pulseaudio[1].


[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PulseAudio/Log

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Saludos,
Felipe Sateler