Stream Music from PC to Audio System via Bluetooth

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847563 · #1 Post by **847563** » Fri 09 Jan 2015, 23:27

Hello,

I want to stream my extensive audio on my PC to an audio system. The audio system uses a USB Bluetooth to receive the audio. It works with my mobile phone, but I want to use my laptop.
Is there some software available that can do this. I am not really interested in streaming radio from the internet which most audio applications can do.

Thank you.

smokey01 · #2 Post by **smokey01** » Sat 10 Jan 2015, 00:21

Kodi should be able to do this for you. http://kodi.tv/

I have created a SFS file for tahrpup that can be downloaded here:
http://www.smokey01.com/software/tahr-6 ... 0-tahr.sfs

847563 · #3 Post by **847563** » Sat 10 Jan 2015, 01:40

smokey01 wrote:Kodi should be able to do this for you. http://kodi.tv/

I have created a SFS file for tahrpup that can be downloaded here:
http://www.smokey01.com/software/tahr-6 ... 0-tahr.sfs

Sadly, I can't find any mention of selecting a Bluetooth device to pair to, for music output using this software. There's HDMI and all that sort of stuff.

Having installed it, how do you remove it please.

smokey01 · #4 Post by **smokey01** » Sat 10 Jan 2015, 04:34

Click on the sfs and load it again. It will know it's loaded and ask if you want unistall it.
can't you use wifi instead of bluetooth?

847563 · #5 Post by **847563** » Sat 10 Jan 2015, 05:47

The audio dongle is only Bluetooth capable. How would I get my router to see it.

smokey01 · #6 Post by **smokey01** » Sat 10 Jan 2015, 09:49

Can you get a usb wifi dongle for you audio system? It would be a better option if it's possible.

847563 · #7 Post by **847563** » Sun 11 Jan 2015, 04:16

Currently use wi fi on my laptop for internet. If i had wi fi dongle for audio, how would I play music to that device and use the internet at the same time from 1 machine. Is that possible.

smokey01 · #8 Post by **smokey01** » Sun 11 Jan 2015, 09:49

If your audio system has a usb port and can manage wifi then I believe it's possible.

847563 · #9 Post by **847563** » Mon 12 Jan 2015, 09:17

Currently, the audio system has a usb port which powers the Bluetooth dongle. The dongle then feeds an input jack through a seperate wire, to provide music after pairing. I don't think this audio device is internet friendly, which is why I'm pursuing the bluetooth option. I have paired it with my phone and it works fine, just can't get the laptop to do the same thing.

smokey01 · #10 Post by **smokey01** » Mon 12 Jan 2015, 09:29

There is a bluetooth package available for linux. Have you looked in the Puppy Package Manager?

847563 · #11 Post by **847563** » Tue 13 Jan 2015, 22:33

Bluetooth is already installed as part of Tahrpup 6.0.

In the hardware section under kernels, there is rfcomm which appears to be installed and waiting. I can't find the interface to either turn it on or sync with any device.

In my PPM. there doesn't appear to be a package for Bluetooth.

smokey01 · #12 Post by **smokey01** » Wed 14 Jan 2015, 05:23

Try blueman_1.23-git201403102151 it's in the PPM.

847563 · #13 Post by **847563** » Wed 14 Jan 2015, 06:49

I found the above ppm

The instructions below to install do not work for me, they are

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install blueman

the file is a deb file if that means anything.

I thought ppm's were supposed to install themselves,

I can see myself abandoning Linux, yet again. All this just to get some music.

I appreciate your help and patience with me, smokey01.

smokey01 · #14 Post by **smokey01** » Wed 14 Jan 2015, 09:05

When you select the ppm search for the file I mentioned. Click on the multiple sites button. All you do then is click on the file in ppm and it will be installed. Click on the check dependencies button to make sure you include everything. No apt-get mallarky required.

Are you really using the Puppy Package Manager?

mikeb · #15 Post by **mikeb** » Wed 14 Jan 2015, 09:20

I had a pair of bluetooth headphones...was fun and games but I did need to add this file called /root/.asoundrc with the code below to make things work...it should add a bluetooth option to the list of sound devices...you need to change the mac to the device one not the interface but don;t quote me...was about 3 years ago I tried this.
By the way audio on bluetooth is harder to get working than file transfers.
Can't remember if I manually paired or it happened automatically...I was using bluez at the time.

mike

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pcm.bluetooth {
   type bluetooth
   device 00:12:C8:90:7A:03
}

847563 · #16 Post by **847563** » Fri 16 Jan 2015, 05:57

@smokey_01

I used the search function to find the download, 17 dependencies are required and ALL of the mirrors are missing 3, so the install aborts.

What do I do now ?

smokey01 · #17 Post by **smokey01** » Fri 16 Jan 2015, 06:36

I'm afraid I've exhausted the limit of my knowledge regarding bluetooth. Unless someone chimes in with more knowledge you may well be at the end of this adventure.

I remember there were a few puppy linux distributions that came with bluetooth installed. I think fluppy was one of those.
http://www.smokey01.com/jemimah/fluppy13/Fluppy-013.iso

Is it an option to run an output from a puppy computer to the input of your sound system?

847563 · #18 Post by **847563** » Fri 16 Jan 2015, 07:42

Once again, thanks a lot.

tempestuous · #19 Post by **tempestuous** » Fri 16 Jan 2015, 08:04

Advance warning; I'm jumping into this discussion at smokey01's request, only half-knowing the answers.
I did some pioneering work getting bluetooth working with Puppy back in 2008, when Puppy was at version 3.x -
"Bluetooth & D-Bus, January 08"
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=25009

I would expect the fundamental principles to remain true to this day:
the Bluetooth Host Controller Interface daemon (hcid) must be running, which you must install as part of the "bluez" utilities. Fortunately Puppy now contains dbus, which the bluetooth utilities require.

Now for one-way bluetooth audio streaming you need to install the bluetooth-alsa driver, from -
http://bluetooth-alsa.sourceforge.net/index.html
then you set up your ALSA configuration file (/etc/asound.conf) to create a bluetooth ALSA device.

After a reboot, with all utilities running and Puppy paired to your audio system's bluetooth receiver, you now need to play your audio files with a suitable audio player application, specifying the "btheadset" output, instead of the normal alsa output.
I think that the mplayer gui will offer this option in its preferences, but if not, you can specify the correct output on the commandline as such -

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mplayer -ao alsa:device=btheadset /path/to/audio/or/video/file

Further instructions here -
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth_headset

666philb · #20 Post by **666philb** » Fri 16 Jan 2015, 11:34

the reason the PPM aborts is that you need to update the repos..... look in the PPM settings.

i made a package of blueman and all the deps, and have now updated it to include the bluetooth-alsa module. (there may still be stuff missing)

grab it here
http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pe ... 3_tahr.pet

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