Trying to connect audio via your plugable’s bt4le USB adapter (BCM20702) one of 2 ways:
Directly connect audio to the Samsung Buds+ Bluetooth headset so I can hear audio from my E6420 Dell laptop, running Opensuse Tumbleweed Linux (bluez) in the Buds+ headset
…or…
Connect the bt4le to my Note 9 phone’s Bluetooth and listen via the audio fed through phone’s Bluetooth-connected Buds+ headset?
IDEALLY both?!
When attempting to ‘add new device’ via systray’s Bluetooth (bluez?), I have successfully connected to my Samsung Note 9 phone via Bluetooth that conveniently offered for connection; but cannot seem to get audio? e.g. to listion to a YouTube video playback on my Dell laptop?
I can never see any devices resembling my Samsung Bluetooth Buds+ headset as an option to connect too?
I think you should get the earbuds in discoverable mode, here I read:
The Samsung Galaxy Buds+ connect to your Samsung Galaxy very quickly. All you need to do is open the charging case with the earbuds in it. Within a few seconds, you’ll get a notification on your Samsung smartphone with a request to pair the devices.
Within those few seconds I think you can also try to connect.
Ok then!! Now this is getting bit tedious for a low-paid geek wanabe like me. Got a response from the USB-BT4LE product owner for plugable, who offered this link:
Bluetooth Headphones, Speaker, or Headset Isn’t Working in Windows/Linux
Last Update: February 2nd, 2021
Article ID: 680389 https://kb.plugable.com/questions/680389/
So I copied their list of suggested libraries required to build an older BlueZ 5.52 vs TW’s current Version: 5.60-4.1, and ran:
S | Name | Summary | Type
–±----------------------------------±-----------------------------------------------------------±-------
| blueman | GTK+ Bluetooth Manager | package
| blueman-lang | Translations for package blueman | package
| caja-extension-sendto-blueman | A sendto integration for Caja | package
| libical-devel | Development files for libical, an implementation of basi-> | package
| libudev-devel | Development files for libudev | package
| libudev-devel-32bit | Development files for libudev | package
| nautilus-extension-sendto-blueman | A sendto integration for Nautilus | package
| nemo-extension-sendto-blueman | A sendto integration for Nemo | package
| pulseaudio-module-bluetooth | Bluetooth support for the PulseAudio sound server | package
| thunar-sendto-blueman | A sendto integration for Thunar | package
…to see how close our repos could match their libraries needed to build BlueZ 5.52. Clearly not a library-to-library match?
THEN test ran:
linuxhillih6420e:~/Downloads/bluez-5.52 # zypper in pulseaudio-module-bluetooth libusb-dev libdbus-1-dev libglib2.0-dev libudev-dev libical-dev libreadline-dev blueman
Loading repository data…
Reading installed packages…
‘libdbus-1-dev’ not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of ‘libdbus-1-dev’ found.
‘libglib2.0-dev’ not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of ‘libglib2.0-dev’ found.
‘libical-dev’ not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of ‘libical-dev’ found.
‘libreadline-dev’ not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of ‘libreadline-dev’ found.
‘libudev-dev’ not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of ‘libudev-dev’ found.
‘libusb-dev’ not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of ‘libusb-dev’ found.
Resolving package dependencies…
Problem: the to be installed pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-15.0-2.1.x86_64 requires ‘pulseaudio = 15.0’, but this requirement cannot be provided
not installable providers: pulseaudio-15.0-2.1.i586[http-download.opensuse.org-1ba04a76]
pulseaudio-15.0-2.1.x86_64[http-download.opensuse.org-1ba04a76]
pulseaudio-15.0-2.1.i586[http-download.opensuse.org-8f6c887c]
pulseaudio-15.0-2.1.x86_64[http-download.opensuse.org-8f6c887c]
pulseaudio-15.0-2.1.i586[repo-oss]
pulseaudio-15.0-2.1.x86_64[repo-oss]
Solution 1: Following actions will be done:
deinstallation of pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.34-2.4.x86_64
deinstallation of patterns-microos-desktop-common-5.0-36.1.x86_64
Solution 2: do not install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-15.0-2.1.x86_64
Solution 3: break pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-15.0-2.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/3/c/d/?] (c): ^C
…quite the ‘break a lot of ****’ output for a 90% gui dependent like me.
ANY CLARITY by my OpenSUSE/TW/Linux Sensei much appreciated.
[QUOTE=tech9iner;3062925]Ok then!! Now this is getting bit tedious for a low-paid geek wanabe like me. Got a response from the USB-BT4LE product owner for plugable, who offered this link:
Bluetooth Headphones, Speaker, or Headset Isn’t Working in Windows/Linux
Last Update: February 2nd, 2021
Article ID: 680389 https://kb.plugable.com/questions/680389/
So I copied their list of suggested libraries required to build an older BlueZ 5.52 vs TW’s current Version: 5.60-4.1, and ran:
zypper se pulseaudio-module-bluetooth libusb-dev libdbus-1-dev libglib2.0-dev libudev-dev libical-dev libreadline-dev blueman
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Summary | Type
--+-----------------------------------+------------------------------------------------------------+--------
| blueman | GTK+ Bluetooth Manager | package
| blueman-lang | Translations for package blueman | package
| caja-extension-sendto-blueman | A sendto integration for Caja | package
| libical-devel | Development files for libical, an implementation of basi-> | package
| libudev-devel | Development files for libudev | package
| libudev-devel-32bit | Development files for libudev | package
| nautilus-extension-sendto-blueman | A sendto integration for Nautilus | package
| nemo-extension-sendto-blueman | A sendto integration for Nemo | package
| pulseaudio-module-bluetooth | Bluetooth support for the PulseAudio sound server | package
| thunar-sendto-blueman | A sendto integration for Thunar | package
…to see how close our repos could match their libraries needed to build BlueZ 5.52. Clearly not a library-to-library match?
THEN test ran:
linuxhillih6420e:~/Downloads/bluez-5.52 # zypper in pulseaudio-module-bluetooth libusb-dev libdbus-1-dev libglib2.0-dev libudev-dev libical-dev libreadline-dev blueman
Loading repository data...
Reading installed packages...
'libdbus-1-dev' not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of 'libdbus-1-dev' found.
'libglib2.0-dev' not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of 'libglib2.0-dev' found.
'libical-dev' not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of 'libical-dev' found.
'libreadline-dev' not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of 'libreadline-dev' found.
'libudev-dev' not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of 'libudev-dev' found.
'libusb-dev' not found in package names. Trying capabilities.
No provider of 'libusb-dev' found.
Resolving package dependencies...
Problem: the to be installed pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-15.0-2.1.x86_64 requires 'pulseaudio = 15.0', but this requirement cannot be provided
not installable providers: pulseaudio-15.0-2.1.i586[http-download.opensuse.org-1ba04a76]
pulseaudio-15.0-2.1.x86_64[http-download.opensuse.org-1ba04a76]
pulseaudio-15.0-2.1.i586[http-download.opensuse.org-8f6c887c]
pulseaudio-15.0-2.1.x86_64[http-download.opensuse.org-8f6c887c]
pulseaudio-15.0-2.1.i586[repo-oss]
pulseaudio-15.0-2.1.x86_64[repo-oss]
Solution 1: Following actions will be done:
deinstallation of pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.34-2.4.x86_64
deinstallation of patterns-microos-desktop-common-5.0-36.1.x86_64
Solution 2: do not install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-15.0-2.1.x86_64
Solution 3: break pulseaudio-module-bluetooth-15.0-2.1.x86_64 by ignoring some of its dependencies
Choose from above solutions by number or cancel [1/2/3/c/d/?] (c): ^C
Better re CODE/CODE applied? Learned something new after my 2004/2005 OpenSUSE beginnings! ;]]