No bluetooth audio selectable

[suse_paul]

I have the problem as set out in this thread, that bluetooth audio devices connect but don’t show up in the list of possible output devices:

Bluetooth audio not selectable

On a regular Tumbleweed (with KDE and the other “defaults”) when connecting “extra” audio devices, like bluetooth audio devices, the bluetooth connection would complete “correctly” but the devices won’t be added to the list of available output devices in the sound panel. Rebooting the computer and/or reconnecting the devices won’t help. This bug is transient, some software updates will fix it and some others will bring it back (this is not the first time I see it) and it’s now broken as of 20221…

the solution described there to execute

sudo systemctl restart bluetooth

is working.

But how can I acchieve that I don’t have to restart bluetooth “by hand”?

[hcvv]

Maybe by doing a

systemctl status bluetooth

before restarting it, you will get some information.

[conram]

Can you check the status of bluetooth in Yast2 -services manager.

[suse_paul]

systemctl status bluetooth

before restarting gives me

bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2023-11-25 10:03:29 CET; 7h ago
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
   Main PID: 2479 (bluetoothd)
     Status: "Running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
     CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
             └─ 2479 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

after restarting it gives me

● bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/bluetooth.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (running) since Sat 2023-11-25 18:01:00 CET; 11s ago
       Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
   Main PID: 13949 (bluetoothd)
     Status: "Running"
      Tasks: 1 (limit: 4915)
     CGroup: /system.slice/bluetooth.service
             └─ 13949 /usr/lib/bluetooth/bluetoothd

I don’t see a difference

[suse_paul]

I don’t konw what “Yast2 -services manager” is

[hui]

It is only a GUI for all services…

[suse_paul]

in yast2 services-manager it says
(I translated to English)

bluetooth at system boot active (running)
bluetooth-mesh manually inactive (dead)

[hcvv]

@suse_paul

I don’t see a difference

Neither do I. Which means that it is already running without warnings/errors before you restart it.

BTW YaST > System > Service manager and then asking information about the service will provide you exactly the same information.

[ramil]

Uninstalling “pipewire” fixed the same issue for me

[suse_paul]

thanks, that made it for me as well