Trouble getting earbuds to show in Audio settings

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Another suggestion to move to using pipewire and ‘pipewire-pulseaudio’…

Sound plays out speakers, not Bluetooth headset

Bluetooth audio devices are recognised but are not available as speakers / headsets. This seems to be a problem with PulseAudio. Since the 20220708 openSUSE Tumbleweed release, new installations use PipeWire as the default audio engine instead of PulseAudio. It is better to use Pipewire instead. PipeWire is available from the main openSUSE repositories as pipewire. It’s installed by default without audio support in openSUSE Leap. In order to enable it and use PipeWire as an audio engine (replaci…