Bluetooth issues in Canada

[Jakekoe]

What i2s driver does the manufacturer specify for the device?

ETA: If the device has its own volume control then make sure its at a high enough level.

I keep it at about 80% but have always tested turning it up at each test.

[TheOldPresbyope]

@Jakekoe 

To follow up on a previous reply of mine.

1) I found a Pi model 3B v1.2 in my goodies bin. I booted a fresh copy of moOde 9.0.3 on it. The selected audio output device is a Creative Tech USB BT-W2 adapter driving Sennheiser headphones. Both the Airplay renderer and the Bluetooth renderer are working for me when I stream via Airplay from a music app on my iPad and via Bluetooth from a music app via on my Google Pixel 6A phone. Listening to WQXR on my headphones now from RadioDroid on the Pixel.

One curiosity: after I enabled the Bluetooth renderer on the moOde player I had to reboot the player before it was visible to the Bluetooth subsystems on my phone and iPad. I'm not sure what that's about.

Bottom line: your problem has me flummoxed.

2) As a footnote to the Airplay discussion, I noticed on my iPad that when I go to enable its Bluetooth subsystem, the menu says "AirDrop, AirPlay, FindMy, and Location Services use Bluetooth." The inclusion of AirDrop and AirPlay in this list is a surprise to me but, be that as it may, the moOde Airplay renderer isn't looking for AirPlay communications over Bluetooth.

Regards,
Kent

[Jakekoe]

I discovered that by switching the named i2s device to Generic-i2s (i2s-dac) from Generic+I2s (hifiberry-dac), I can get my android to connect by BT and send music but I can’t connect with iPad or laptop.

It’s feeling like these other older devices don’t know what kind of BT device it is. I can see Moode Bluetooth but it seems like it doesn’t know what to do with it? Sometimes I can get them to “connect” and I can modify the type of device to speaker but doesn’t output.

Not sure if this is helpful…

[Tim Curtis]

Did switching to the Generic driver fix the "no sound" issue?

[Jakekoe]

Sorry for the delay.

Yes it appears that the Bluetooth is now working for both the iPad and Android.

I'm still having a problem connecting and sending music to Moode from my 2 laptops but it's definitely working so I believe this is now a Bluetooth connection issue with my laptops that I'll figure out.

Apparently it's was a driver issue for my PecanPi. Any chance of having a PecanPi HAT driver in a future update?

Thanks so much for your help and all the incredible work that's gone into Moode. I'm really grateful!