Submitted by abitowhit on Sun, 12/08/2019 - 23:00
So in my own round-about way, I have decided that once again I will try to get bluetooth audio working on this PiFace CLI unit.
First was pairing to the device.
First was to fire up sudo bluetoothctl
Next was to scan for my bluetooth speakers.
scan
This turned on scanning and it immediately found the mac address of the speaker.
I did pair ##-##... using the mac address of the speaker and the pair went fine.
Then I did trust ##-##.... using the mac address of the speaker and it trusted successfully.
I figure at this point minimally the connection was there.
Next I installed omxplayer so I could use the internal audio jack for testing.
sudo apt-get install omxplayer
Then I installed ffmpeg though not sure why, but why not.
sudo apt-get install ffmpeg
Next I installed pulseaudio
sudo apt-get install pulseaudio
I rebooted the pi at this point sudo reboot
After boot I wanted to make sure the device was still there.
sudo bluetoothctl
devices
Device FC:58:FA:7F:03:57 HMDX Street Mini
yup... and exit