Bluetooth - MPD Error - failed to open ALSA Bluetooth

[Tim Curtis]

@trackman92

Fresh install of 8.2.3 working here...listening to a SomaFM channel via BT to a JBL Flip2 speaker as I type.

Note that "Bluetooth pairing agent" applies to incoming BT, like from a smartphone, not outgoing BT, like to a wireless speaker.

You mention pairing but say nothing about connecting. Both steps are necessary for pushing MPD output to a BT device.

Regards,
Kent

Hi Kent,

For avoidance of doubt, I was not trying to imply anything was wrong with v8.2.3, rather that I decided to start over in case I had botched up the setup the first time round.

You are right, I failed to say I had connected the bluetooth device, I should have mentioned that. I did get a "bluetooth connected" message from the headphones after pressing the connect button in the moode interface.

I have managed to get the streaming working now. It seems the problem was not with bluetooth at all. I just tried a different audio source and that ones works. I am not sure why but the first few radio stations in the default list yield the alsa error message I mentioned in my last post. That error message doesn't make any sense to me and it seems unrelated, maybe the problem is a network issue on my end. Regardless, streaming  some of the web radio links from moode to the headphones does work so the problem cannot be bluetooth otherwise none of them would work. Sorry for the confusion. Thank you for your help and thank you to Tim too.

Interesting. Which radio stations caused the ALSA error. Maybe its a Bluetooth case that needs to be tested and debugged :-0

Also, the startup log (moodeutl -l) prints the value of the settings at reboot. When a setting is changed after startup it won't be reflected in that log and so you will see "MPD output 2 ALSA Bluetooth (Off)" instead of On.

To check the current state of settings you can query various SQL tables or the PHP session file.

Code:

# SQL
moodeutl -q "select * from cfg_system"

# Session
sudo moodeutl -d