Bluetooth headset

This article describes the setup of a bluetooth headset.

Prerequisites
A Bluetooth installation must be done first. If you use simple-agent, no GUI programs or applets are needed.

No audio service is available
After updating to -4.97 it might happen, that a Bluetooth headset is connected, but ALSA / PulseAudio fails to pick up the connected device.

An error message like this might be shown in the output of PulseAudio: Debug output of PulseAudio

To fix this, the following needs to be done:
 * 1) Enable the audio socket of bluetoothd


 * 1) Restart bluetoothd by doing one of the following things:
 * 2) * Turn the software wireless kill switch off and on again


 * 1) * Turn the hardware wireless kill switch off and on again
 * 2) * Reboot the computer
 * 3) Reconnect the Bluetooth headset