Bluetooth headphones?

Using MOD devices
#1

Can I use the mod with Bluetooth headphones?

#2

If you are a developer you could probably get a solution using bluez-alsa, but AFAIK there’s nothing setup for this right now.

#3

I don’t think the latency of bluetooth audio (2s or more) would make it usable…

#4

People tend to have forgotten about them, but FM transmitters can still prove useful in some circumstances these days…

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#5

i’m gonna bump this old topic, and ask if there’s currently any way to get bluetooth audio output on either the Duo or the Duo X… excessive latency wouldn’t be a problem in my application.

#6

Unless you find a complete solution that you can build yourself, the answer is no.

bluez-alsa is kinda dead last time I checked, only pulseaudio can handle bluetooth audio properly in Linux at the moment I believe.

If there is something standalone that can push audio to bluetooth, please link me to it and I will turn that into a plugin.

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#7

Different solution… Would something like this work?:

I have one, it’s class compliant, works on Linux and also works as a JACK device… Not sure how extensible the MOD mainboard is to an outside Audio device though… :thinking:

I do know the the hardware is supported on Linux, I use it to send Ardour to my BT Speakers…

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#8

Were you able to make this work on mod?

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#9

What version were they on when you last checked in?

They seem to be on 3.10 and as of a few hours ago, they are discussing the next update 4.0.

https://github.com/Arkq/blue

Maybe they’ve made some progress?

I personally wouldn’t use this feature in my set up, but the utility would be awesome!

#10

i would like to also know if it worked…

#11

have anybody tested with dwarf already?

#12

I managed to connect my bluetooth headphones via SSH access and bluetoothctl command but got no sound nonetheless. I understand it is because of the missing bridge between alsa and bluetooth.
I tried to understand your comment and checked the git repo (GitHub - arkq/bluez-alsa: Bluetooth Audio ALSA Backend) which seems pretty much alive (again) to me - there seem to have been quite some movement since this thread was started.
@falkTX do you see a chance to integrate that?