Enabling Amazon Echo as Bluetooth speaker in Debian 9

Giorgio Zarrelli il lunedì, 25 Dicembre, 2017

Trying to pair my new Amazon Echo to my Xiaomi laptop I received the following error:

blueman.bluez.errors.DBusFailedError: Protocol not available

The solution is quite simple:

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth

Then:

pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover

Just add something like this to your

/etc/bash.bashrc

# Enable Amazon Echo as Bluetooth speaker
# First: apt-get install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth
# Then:

pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover

The comments will remind you on what you have to install and the last line will run the required command at you OS startup.