Bluetooth Headset, connected, but sound plays thru speakers

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My headset and dongle worked on my Windose box. I move them to my newly installed/updated OpenSUSE. I plugged in the dongle, then turned on headset, … “connected” … yay! … But I can’t get anything to play out of the headset. It comes out the speakers only. I tried:

futzing around with the mixer
changing master device
rebooting
changing the order of the audio devices
searching the forum
switching from “headset” to “audio sync”

…?

OpenSUSE 12.1 32-bit KDE

What do I need to do to switch the sound from the speakers to the connected bluetooth headset?

Or, what info do you need me to look up about my system?

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On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:06:02 +0000, susequint wrote:

> What do I need to do to switch the sound from the speakers to the
> connected bluetooth headset?

I don’t know KDE, but on GNOME you have to configure the sound device
settings to send the output to the desired device - I’m sure there’s
something similar in KDE.

Jim

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AAAAAAAAAAAAaaaah. My trouble was VLC. After you nudged me I looked in
Start > Applications > Configure Desktop > Hardware > Multimedia > Phonon > Audio Playback > Music
I set the Bluetooth to prefered.
VLC still played through speakers.
I tried playing a song, and it came through the headset!!
back to Phonon
clicked on Music again, headset was still at the top.
down at the bottom, “Apply Device List To…”
I think VLC must use the ‘default’
this fixed it
VLC now plays through the headset
YAY

thanks Jim

Q

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On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 01:56:03 +0000, susequint wrote:

> AAAAAAAAAAAAaaaah. My trouble was VLC. After you nudged me

Fantastic - I’m glad I was able to point you in the right direction. :slight_smile:

Jim

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openSUSE Forums Administrator
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I had a fit trying to get a Bose bluetooth speaker to work with OpenSUSE 12.2 until I found this thread which pointed me in the right direction and I got it working in Phonon with:

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Phonon > Audio Hardware Setup > Select bluetooth audio device as Sound Card > Select profile other than “off” (I used Analog Stereo Duplex).
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Gordon

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hi i am able to play test sound through soundbar undre Phonon but not able to play cd audio through bluetooth sound bar