Volumio as Bluetooth Audio Receiver

[escoand]

It would be nice to use volumio as a bluetooth audio receiver.
So it could additionally be used for receiving audio streams from smartphone or pc as central audio "device".

I've read about in a german magazine (not tested by myself) if this will help:
https://shop.heise.de/katalog/raspberry-in-blue

[karaambaa]

Don't know if it helps, but you could take a short look at these instructions on how to install a2dp-bluetooth on raspbian jessy https://github.com/karaambaa/a2dp-bluetooth-server

[flowoow]

Got it up and running with the following scripts, using only the bluetooth scripts

https://github.com/BaReinhard/Super-Simple-Raspberry-Pi-Audio-Receiver-Install

[yagayente]

I can't seem to find how to make bluetooth work properly. Does someone work on a plugin ?
It would be nice !

[xipmix]

You may also be interested in @wvengen 's approach, see #159

[death2all110]

@AbysFlo can you explain which scripts you ran exactly?
Also, does pulse interfere with Volumio2 at all? I understand Volumio2 uses ALSA instead of Pulse.

[flowoow]

@death2all110 If I recall well I ran bt_pa_config.sh and bt_pa_install.sh and that was up and running. Not sure how they mixed together, like might needed to pause a song to have only one source of music at the time. I didn't pursue my testing as I have a phone running on 2.4ghz wifi and bluetooth was interfering with it.. I think pulse crashed couple of time as well that needed a reboot. But was usable if you're not stuck with 2.4ghz wifi

[donjuan201]

I think a very cool and super awesome feature would be if you could stream from a smartphone (through a Bluetooth or Wifi (maybe through the app as well) connection) to volumio and have volumio record the audio input and give you the option to save it to your local / network device containing your media files. This way you can also expand your library if anyone comes past and has a song that you don't have in your library, you can then easily have them stream it through your volumio setup and boom you have the song now part of your library...

Make it sound easy, right (*duck), I think a lot of people will find this feature super handy.

[Zjerardo]

I have also tried to install this using the https://github.com/BaReinhard/Super-Simple-Raspberry-Pi-Audio-Receiver-Install method, but it still isn't working.

steps I've done so far:
sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install libtool
sudo apt-get install intltool
sudo apt-get install locales
sudo dpkg-reconfigure locales

afterwards I run the installer.sh (sudo) and select option 4 (bluetooth only).

it seems to run through the installation process, but it doesn't activate the bluetooth.
I'll have to recheck for any other error messages in the log and try to resolve them but if anyone else has a proper installation procedure to get this working, it would be greatly appreciated!

[glodoski]

I had the same issue with the above script. Looking over my install.log file, it looked like the script was aborting any time it was prompted to install more than 1 package at a time. I was able to successfully get Bluetooth working on my Volumio installation by installing all the prerequisites first and then running the script again:

sudo apt-get install autoconf automake autopoint autotools-dev file gettext gettext-base libasprintf-dev libasprintf0c2 libauthen-sasl-perl libcroco3 libencode-locale-perl libfile-listing-perl libfont-afm-perl libgettextpo-dev libgettextpo0 libhtml-form-perl libhtml-format-perl libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libhttp-cookies-perl libhttp-daemon-perl libhttp-date-perl libhttp-message-perl libhttp-negotiate-perl libio-html-perl libio-socket-ssl-perl liblwp-mediatypes-perl liblwp-protocol-https-perl libmailtools-perl libnet-http-perl libnet-smtp-ssl-perl libnet-ssleay-perl libsigsegv2 libtimedate-perl libunistring0 liburi-perl libwww-perl libwww-robotrules-perl libxml-parser-perl m4 patch libflac-dev libogg-dev libsndfile1-dev libvorbis-dev libjson-c-dev libjson0 libjson0-dev make

[kerwingroot]

Hi, i'm still having some problems with installing the plugin.
I'm connected trough ssh and the installer seems to be working ok, but suddenly ends with this and closes connection:

===> Executing: su volumio -c ./bt_pa_config.sh
mkdir: cannot create directory '/home/pi/pyScripts': No such file or directory
===> Executing: sudo cp usr/local/bin/volume-watcher.py /usr/local/bin/volume-watcher.py
sudo: no tty present and no askpass program specified
Exiting script due to error from: sudo cp usr/local/bin/volume-watcher.py /usr/local/bin/volume-watcher.py
Exiting script due to error from: su volumio -c ./bt_pa_config.sh
--------------------------------------------
./install.sh: line 291: [: !=: unary operator expected
Ending at @ Tue Dec 12 12:48:59 UTC 2017
 

If anybody has some great ideas to work around this, that would be great!

[xipmix]

This is an issue that should be reported to the author of bt_pa_config.sh.
There are lots of problems here.

• The script is hardcoding the /home/pi/ directory which doesn't exist on your system
• The sudo calls are not handled correctly; bt_pa_config.sh should be run via sudo
• The install.sh script needs to use proper quoting and seems to have a logic flaw.

[biva]

For information, there's a discussion on the forum: https://volumio.org/forum/a2dp-bluetooth-support-t1475-40.html

And some improvements have been done by @BaReinhard here: https://github.com/BaReinhard/Super-Simple-Raspberry-Pi-Audio-Receiver-Install

[biva]

See also BaReinhard/Super-Simple-Raspberry-Pi-Audio-Receiver-Install#76 and BaReinhard/Super-Simple-Raspberry-Pi-Audio-Receiver-Install#71 (comment)

[BaReinhard]

I have updated the repo with a volumio_fix branch to potentially fix several issues. However, I dont have access to volumio so I can't test at the moment. I potentially have some free time this coming week to setup a volumio pi and testing things out. (Most likely Friday).

@xipmix I am open to making changes and very much open to pull requests with potential fixes you have in mind.

The reason for running as user level was for compiling json-c and libsndfile, also it was originally written for raspbian.