qaudio-player

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qaudio-player

The following steps must be performed on the machine that plays audio

Install the pulseaudio server

sudo apt install pulseaudio

Add a line to accept clients from docker

sudo nano /etc/pulse/default.pa

# Add the following lines
load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=172.17.0.0/16 auth-anonymous=1
load-module module-combine-sink sink_name=combined
set-default-sink combined

Restart the pulseaudio server

systemctl --user restart pulseaudio

Update:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/getty@tty1.service.d/autologin.conf

Contents should be:

[Service]
ExecStart=
ExecStart=-/sbin/agetty -o '-p -f -- \\u' --noclear --autologin <username> %I $TERM

Enable and start the service:

sudo systemctl enable getty@tty1.service
sudo systemctl start getty@tty1.service

The user should autologin now and when the user logs in, pulseaudio daemon under the user should also start.

Bluetooth Setup

Install bluetooth support for pulseaudio

sudo apt update
sudo apt install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth

Launch the bluetooth CLI

bluetoothctl

Turn on the agent, which will allow us to search for and pair with other bluetooth devices (in this case, our bluetooth speaker)

agent on

Start scanning for bluetooth devices

scan on

Once you have found the MAC address of the device you want to connect to, you can now proceed to pair with it

pair [XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX]

When you first pair a device, you will be immediately connected to it.

However, once you have gone out of range of the Raspberry Pi’s Bluetooth, you will need to re-connect the device by using the following command

connect [XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX]

If you don’t want to have to re-pair your device, then you can make use of the trust command.

trust [XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX]