PipeWire and bluetooth
In the past I always avoided pulseaudio
in favor of alsa
(with apulse
to use with Firefox).
Today I decided to try pipewire
with my Debian 12 to take advantage of my bluetooth hardware.
references
https://wiki.debian.org/PipeWire https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PipeWire#Bluetooth_devices
pipewire as media server
*a media server means it will handle audio for any app that need audio.
install
sudo apt install pipewire pipewire-alsa pipewire-audio pipewire-pulse libspa-0.2-bluetooth wireplumber
enable media session service
systemctl --user --now enable wireplumber.service
pipewire-pulse
: to replacepulseaudio
pipewire-audio
: I find that it is essential forbluetooth
wireplumber
: recommended by pipewire’s developers as session manager.
other packages
blueman
: bluetooth manager GUI.
pavucontrol
: to select audio outputs.
some troubleshooting
I think if you just install these packages everything should just work (I use blueman
for bluetooth management).
For me, I encountered this problem:
br-connection-profile-unavailable
I got reminded by Arch wiki to install pipewire-audio
and the problem had gone. (because “PipeWire handles Bluetooth audio devices if the pipewire-audio
package is installed”).
You should check with systemctl --user status pipewire-pulse.service
and systemctl --user status pipewire.service
first to see if these services are running, if not:
sudo apt reinstall pipewire pipewire-pulse
systemctl --user --now enable pipewire pipewire-pulse
As recommended here: https://www.reddit.com/r/pop_os/comments/100zf76/comment/j2oswyk/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3
Until now, installing bluetooth with pipewire
has been a very pleasant process. Everything just works.
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