# Bluetooth and sound devices issue **URL:** \ **Category:** English\ **Tags:** en, fa\_IR\ **Created:** [July 14, 2024, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.parchlinux.com/t/bluetooth-and-sound-devices-issue/185 "2024-07-14T13:06:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![kehiy](https://forum.parchlinux.com/user_avatar/forum.parchlinux.com/kehiy/32/148_2.png) [@kehiy](https://forum.parchlinux.com/u/kehiy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 1:06pm UTC](https://forum.parchlinux.com/t/bluetooth-and-sound-devices-issue/185/1 "2024-07-14T13:06:47Z")
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: ```bash pulseaudio -k ``` Any one knows how can I fix this issues? Is there any issues with my config? ---
**Author:** ![sbehdani](https://forum.parchlinux.com/user_avatar/forum.parchlinux.com/sbehdani/32/938_2.png) [@sbehdani](https://forum.parchlinux.com/u/sbehdani)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 3:09pm UTC](https://forum.parchlinux.com/t/bluetooth-and-sound-devices-issue/185/2 "2024-07-14T15:09:57Z")
do you have pulseaudio and pipewire installed at the same time? send the following command output: ```bash pacman -Qe | grep pulseaudio ``` ---
**Author:** ![kehiy](https://forum.parchlinux.com/user_avatar/forum.parchlinux.com/kehiy/32/148_2.png) [@kehiy](https://forum.parchlinux.com/u/kehiy)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 11:36pm UTC](https://forum.parchlinux.com/t/bluetooth-and-sound-devices-issue/185/3 "2024-07-14T23:36:11Z")
here is the outpu: ```bash pulseaudio-alsa 1:1.2.12-2 pulseaudio-bluetooth 17.0-3 ``` Yes, I have `pipewire` installed as well. ---
**Author:** ![sbehdani](https://forum.parchlinux.com/user_avatar/forum.parchlinux.com/sbehdani/32/938_2.png) [@sbehdani](https://forum.parchlinux.com/u/sbehdani)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2024, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.parchlinux.com/t/bluetooth-and-sound-devices-issue/185/4 "2024-07-14T23:38:42Z")
pipewire is default in parch. it seems like a wireplumber issue, remove it with `pacman -Rdd wireplumber` and install pipewire-media-session ---
**Author:** ![kehiy](https://forum.parchlinux.com/user_avatar/forum.parchlinux.com/kehiy/32/148_2.png) [@kehiy](https://forum.parchlinux.com/u/kehiy)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2024, 3:07pm UTC](https://forum.parchlinux.com/t/bluetooth-and-sound-devices-issue/185/5 "2024-07-15T15:07:03Z")
Done, trying to check if it fixes the issue. what should I do with pulseaudio? Should I remove it as well? ---
**Author:** ![sbehdani](https://forum.parchlinux.com/user_avatar/forum.parchlinux.com/sbehdani/32/938_2.png) [@sbehdani](https://forum.parchlinux.com/u/sbehdani)\ **Post date:** [July 15, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://forum.parchlinux.com/t/bluetooth-and-sound-devices-issue/185/6 "2024-07-15T15:56:00Z")
yes, pulseaudio itself conflicts with pipewire ---
**Author:** ![kehiy](https://forum.parchlinux.com/user_avatar/forum.parchlinux.com/kehiy/32/148_2.png) [@kehiy](https://forum.parchlinux.com/u/kehiy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 12:02pm UTC](https://forum.parchlinux.com/t/bluetooth-and-sound-devices-issue/185/7 "2024-07-25T12:02:04Z")
I installed `pipewire-media-session` and removed: `wireplumber` and `pulseaudio`, But the random successful connections are gone now. Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![sbehdani](https://forum.parchlinux.com/user_avatar/forum.parchlinux.com/sbehdani/32/938_2.png) [@sbehdani](https://forum.parchlinux.com/u/sbehdani)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2024, 5:05pm UTC](https://forum.parchlinux.com/t/bluetooth-and-sound-devices-issue/185/8 "2024-07-25T17:05:16Z")
share some logs from bluetooth commandline ---
**Author:** ![kehiy](https://forum.parchlinux.com/user_avatar/forum.parchlinux.com/kehiy/32/148_2.png) [@kehiy](https://forum.parchlinux.com/u/kehiy)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.parchlinux.com/t/bluetooth-and-sound-devices-issue/185/9 "2024-07-26T09:07:46Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![sbehdani](https://forum.parchlinux.com/user_avatar/forum.parchlinux.com/sbehdani/32/938_2.png) [@sbehdani](https://forum.parchlinux.com/u/sbehdani)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2024, 9:26am UTC](https://forum.parchlinux.com/t/bluetooth-and-sound-devices-issue/185/10 "2024-07-26T09:26:03Z")
use bluetoothctl to connect, the commands are mentioned inside archwiki. ---
**Author:** ![kehiy](https://forum.parchlinux.com/user_avatar/forum.parchlinux.com/kehiy/32/148_2.png) [@kehiy](https://forum.parchlinux.com/u/kehiy)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2024, 2:12pm UTC](https://forum.parchlinux.com/t/bluetooth-and-sound-devices-issue/185/11 "2024-07-27T14:12:41Z")
OK, I’ll try it, but my audio devices are not working now even without bluetooth. ---
**Author:** ![sbehdani](https://forum.parchlinux.com/user_avatar/forum.parchlinux.com/sbehdani/32/938_2.png) [@sbehdani](https://forum.parchlinux.com/u/sbehdani)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2024, 4:22pm UTC](https://forum.parchlinux.com/t/bluetooth-and-sound-devices-issue/185/12 "2024-07-28T16:22:21Z")
it seems like the pipewire media session issue return to the wireplumber