I finally figured out how to turn my old laptop into a real bluetooth speaker. Just turn it on, connect and play music.
This was a bit more complicated than it sounds because #Pipewire and #Wireplumber run as user services, so they don't start when you boot your PC without logging in.
Setting #Systemd lingering for my user, enabling the services (Wireplumber and Pipewire), disabling Wireplumber logind function and adding my user to the audio group (which was the final problem I had) solved it.
Kubuntu 26.04 - Volume/sound level gets stuck into a short range upon connecting bluetooth devices #sound #kubuntu #bluetooth #pipewire #wireplumber
When connecting bluetooth speakers or earbuds in Kubuntu 26.04, the following bug happens: the sound level gets stuck into a short range (centered around the last sound level before connection, so ...
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Vorgeschichte:
Seit Mitte 25 bin ich auf Linux unterwegs. Seit Anfang an hatte ich in unregelmäßigen Abständen bei verschiedenen Games Störgeräusche.
Die üblichen Tipps mit #PipeWire #PulseAudio #Wireplumber brachten keine Verbesserung. Ich tat es als „Linux Ding“ ab.
Hauptproblem war, dass die Fehler nicht reproduzierbar waren. Insofern musste man immer ne Weile spielen und hoffen das es weg ist. Was nicht der Fall war.
Hay cosas que en #GNU con #Linux no están listas para el gran público. Yo las puedo asumir. Para eso llevo veintiséis años a la espalda. Aun así: me toca la polla.
Es un caso particular, pero oye, es molesto. Me pasa con el #DualSense y #WirePlumber. El "upstream" no maneja como debe el mando y hay que modificar el "caso de uso" (en español, en inglés sus siglas son UCM) para configurarlo con cuatro canales. Para tener vibración háptica, por ejemplo.
I've been having #bluetooth issues (#cinnamon crashed everytime I connected my BT headphones) since a recent system upgrade.
It seems this was caused by a bug introduced in #wireplumber 0.5.13.
I've downgraded wireplumber and libwireplumber to a previous version and now BT is working nicely.
The auto brightness added in 0.51 saw some improvements. We now remember a user set offset across reboots and also compensate for night light automatically (as contrast is reduced under red shift at low brightness for the human 👁️).
We also fixed several bugs in volume control selection related to new #pipewire and #wireplumber versions.
There's a bunch of other improvements like "Settings" button in the caffeine quick settings status page that takes you right to the plugin config. Most of the work for this happened in mobile settings and we'll reuse that for other plugins too.
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Turns out I'm not the only one currently with Bluetooth problems on Linux. The latest WirePlumber version 0.5.13 introduces a new auto-switch to headset profiles for Bluetooth headsets, which crashes my Jabra Headset from work but not my Google Pixel Buds Pro 2.
The workaround for the moment is either downgrading to 0.5.12 or disabling the new auto-switch feature with the following:
```
wpctl settings -s bluetooth.autoswitch-to-headset-profile false
```
(Taken from https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libgnome-volume-control/-/issues/34#note_2645091)
The `-s` persists this change - otherwise I'd have to remember setting this after every login.
#bluetooth #linux #wireplumber
I made a call for help regarding Pipewire recently. And got some retoots. Thx for that.
Sadly i have to push that issue again.
I run Open Sound Meter which comes as an AppImage.
Issue:
Somehow OSM doesn't connect to Pipewire but to the audio interface directly. So it doesn't show up in the pw patchbay.
There was a suggestion to configure pipewire-alsa. I found zero helpful information on that matter. Just the general documentation that lists a lot but tutors not so much.
Any hint appreciated.
#Pipewire #wireplumber #AppImage #opensoundmeter #linux #linuxaudio #linuxaudioproduction
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