[bfddld premium]

bfddld premium

18. Juli 2017 at 12:02 #29942

Well its a bit hit and miss but I finally managed to get my echo to connect as sink.
I rebooted Echo, clicked remove on Bluetooth Max2Play tab.
In a terminal window I ran bluetoothctl then scan on, then prepared the command to connect ready to hit return. Then quickly said Alexa Pair and immediately hit return to issue connect command in terminal.
To my surprise, this time it connected as a2dp sink. And of course I can now play music.
Has survived disconnect/connect and pi reboot.

It’s like if you give Echo too long to think it will assert itself as source and pi lets it.

[bfddld premium]

bfddld premium

18. Juli 2017 at 11:21 #29941

Still can’t use Amazon Echo (not Dot) as Bluetooth speaker with Max2Play.
Problem is Echo connects as a2dp_source-, is not listed as an available sink, and the set card profile commands (my card listed as no 1) fail as follows:
pactl set-card-profile 1 a2dp
Failure: Input/Output error
pacmd set-card-profile 1 a2dp
Failed to set card profile to ‚a2dp‘

Has anyone solved this yet?

#### Bluetooth Installation ####

#### Bluetooth Dongle ####
hci0: Type: BR/EDR Bus: USB
BD Address: 00:1A:7D:DA:71:0A ACL MTU: 310:10 SCO MTU: 64:8
UP RUNNING PSCAN
RX bytes:250252 acl:837 sco:0 events:119 errors:0
TX bytes:2746 acl:34 sco:0 commands:61 errors:0

#### DEVICE Echo-3WS ####
[40:B4:CD:2A:94:BB]
Name: Echo-3WS
Alias: Echo-3WS [rw]
Address: 40:B4:CD:2A:94:BB
Icon: audio-card
Class: 0xc0414
Paired: 1
Trusted: 1 [rw]
Blocked: 0 [rw]
Connected: 1
UUIDs: [AudioSource, AudioSink, AVRemoteControl, PnPInformation, 4e72b490-1d0f-bf92-0e47-a84e01000000]

#### DEVICE [Samsung] Office ####
[CC:B1:1A:8C:45:E6]
Name: [Samsung] Office
Alias: [Samsung] Office [rw]
Address: CC:B1:1A:8C:45:E6
Icon: audio-card
Class: 0x240404
Paired: 1
Trusted: 1 [rw]
Blocked: 0 [rw]
Connected: 0
UUIDs: [SerialPort, AudioSink, AVRemoteControlTarget, AVRemoteControl, 00001801-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb]

#### PACMD LIST | grep active ####
active port: <analog-output>
active port: <speaker-input>
active profile: <output:analog-stereo>
active profile: <a2dp_source>

#### PACMD LIST | grep sink ####
Default sink name: alsa_output.platform-soc_audio.analog-stereo
name: <module-null-sink>
module.description = „Clocked NULL sink“
module.description = „When a bluetooth sink or source is added, load module-loopback“
module.description = „Automatically restore the default sink and source“
name: <module-always-sink>
module.description = „Always keeps at least one sink loaded even if it’s a null one“
module.description = „When a sink/source is idle for too long, suspend it“
module.description = „Load filter sinks automatically when needed“
module.description = „BlueZ 5 Bluetooth audio sink and source“
argument: <source=“bluez_source.40_B4_CD_2A_94_BB“ source_dont_move=“true“ sink_input_properties=“media.role=music“>
module.description = „Loopback from source to sink“
2 sink(s) available.
driver: <module-null-sink.c>
driver: <module-null-sink.c>
sinks:
1 sink input(s) available.
sink: 1 <alsa_output.platform-soc_audio.analog-stereo>
module-stream-restore.id = „sink-input-by-media-role:music“

#### X-SERVER RUNNING ####
1

#### PULSEAUDIO RUNNING ####
1 S 1000 1166 1 4 80 0 – 28101 – ? 00:00:01 pulseaudio

#### PACMD LIST-CARDS | DEBUG COMPLETE ####
2 card(s) available.
index: 0
name: <alsa_card.platform-soc_audio>
driver: <module-alsa-card.c>
owner module: 7
properties:
alsa.card = „0“
alsa.card_name = „bcm2835 ALSA“
alsa.long_card_name = „bcm2835 ALSA“
alsa.driver_name = „snd_bcm2835“
device.bus_path = „platform-soc:audio“
sysfs.path = „/devices/platform/soc/soc:audio/sound/card0“
device.string = „0“
device.description = „bcm2835 ALSA“
module-udev-detect.discovered = „1“
device.icon_name = „audio-card“
profiles:
output:analog-mono: Analog Mono Output (priority 100, available: unknown)
output:analog-stereo: Analog Stereo Output (priority 6000, available: unknown)
off: Off (priority 0, available: unknown)
active profile: <output:analog-stereo>
sinks:
alsa_output.platform-soc_audio.analog-stereo/#1: bcm2835 ALSA Analog Stereo
sources:
alsa_output.platform-soc_audio.analog-stereo.monitor/#1: Monitor of bcm2835 ALSA Analog Stereo
ports:
analog-output: Analog Output (priority 9900, latency offset 0 usec, available: unknown)
properties:

index: 1
name: <bluez_card.40_B4_CD_2A_94_BB>
driver: <module-bluez5-device.c>
owner module: 27
properties:
device.description = „Echo-3WS“
device.string = „40:B4:CD:2A:94:BB“
device.api = „bluez“
device.class = „sound“
device.bus = „bluetooth“
device.form_factor = „speaker“
bluez.path = „/org/bluez/hci0/dev_40_B4_CD_2A_94_BB“
bluez.class = „0x0c0414“
bluez.alias = „Echo-3WS“
device.icon_name = „audio-speakers-bluetooth“
profiles:
a2dp_source: High Fidelity Capture (A2DP Source) (priority 10, available: yes)
a2dp: High Fidelity Playback (A2DP Sink) (priority 10, available: unknown)
off: Off (priority 0, available: yes)
active profile: <a2dp_source>
sources:
bluez_source.40_B4_CD_2A_94_BB/#2: Echo-3WS
ports:
speaker-output: Speaker (priority 0, latency offset 0 usec, available: no)
properties:

speaker-input: Bluetooth Input (priority 0, latency offset 0 usec, available: yes)
properties:

[bfddld premium]

bfddld premium

14. Juli 2017 at 8:51 #29911

Hi. Ive got my m2p on pi3 working with latest beta as LMS server and local squeezelite player sending output via bt usb dongle and m2p bluetooth plugin to a bluetooth speaker. Works very well since i switched to a usb bt dongle and disabled pi 3 bt (with built in bt, audio would randomly cut out after 10 mins – 1 hour, requiring pi reboot) and added a power on/off script) with squeezelite -S option to connect/disconnect to speaker on player on/off in ipeng (see previous post).
I now want to use an Amazon echo as the bt speaker in this set up. I can get bt connected with max2play but so far no audio coming out. Has anyone managed this? Im aware of hab-tunes initiative but wanted to get echo working with m2p as basic bluetooth speaker (audio receiver) in meantime.

[bfddld premium]

bfddld premium

6. Juli 2017 at 13:36 #29838

Hi.
In case anyone is interested, I managed to solve this myself.
I had to:
1) Via Max2Play web UI, Update to Beta, then Update Squeezelite
– this was necessary to get the GPIO squeezelite build option that -S command line option depends on.
2) In Squeezelite advanced options, set Command Line Options to -B -S /opt/squeezelite/btrecon.sh
– this tells squeezelite to run my btrecon.sh script passing a 1 or 0 command line arg when player is switched on or off via iPeng / OrangeSqueeze.
3) Create the script below (and make executable) at /opt/squeezelite/btrecon.sh
– the script just runs bluetoothctl and either issues a connect or disconnect command to my BT speaker.

#!/bin/bash
power_state=$1
if [ „$power_state“ = „1“ ]
then
# echo $(date) “ $power_state Power switch on “ >> /opt/squeezelite/log/btrecon.log
bluetoothctl <<EOF
connect CC:B1:1A:8C:45:E6
EOF

else
# echo $(date) “ $power_state Power switch off “ >> /opt/squeezelite/log/btrecon.log
bluetoothctl <<EOF
disconnect CC:B1:1A:8C:45:E6
EOF
fi

Works a treat!