Bluetooth and sound devices issue

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I have installed Parch for about 4 days, I have issues with my sound devices and Bluetooth.

Sometimes my device can’t discover new Bluetooth devices, or if it discovered them and connected to them, after a while it will be disconnected and it can’t connect to them again anymore and randomly it can connect to them for a short time.

Also, today I was able to connect to 2 different Bluetooth devices, and it was successful, but the sounds won’t be played using Bluetooth devices and it use device speaker again.

And the last issue it sometimes the whole sound system will crash and even youtube can’t play videos and I need to run following command to fix it temporarily and run it again after a short period of time:

pulseaudio -k

Any one knows how can I fix this issues? Is there any issues with my config?

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do you have pulseaudio and pipewire installed at the same time?

send the following command output:

pacman -Qe | grep pulseaudio
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here is the outpu:

pulseaudio-alsa 1:1.2.12-2
pulseaudio-bluetooth 17.0-3

Yes, I have pipewire installed as well.

4

pipewire is default in parch.
it seems like a wireplumber issue, remove it with pacman -Rdd wireplumber and install pipewire-media-session

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Done, trying to check if it fixes the issue. what should I do with pulseaudio? Should I remove it as well?

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yes, pulseaudio itself conflicts with pipewire

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I installed pipewire-media-session and removed: wireplumber and pulseaudio, But the random successful connections are gone now.

Any ideas?

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share some logs from bluetooth commandline

9

There are no logs. any specific place for it?

Currently, the built-in speaker also doesn’t work since I removed the mentioned packages and installed the suggested one, am I missing something here?

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use bluetoothctl to connect, the commands are mentioned inside archwiki.

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OK, I’ll try it, but my audio devices are not working now even without bluetooth.

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it seems like the pipewire media session issue
return to the wireplumber