{"id":1775,"date":"2017-12-25T11:25:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-25T10:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/?p=1775"},"modified":"2017-12-25T11:25:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-25T10:25:20","slug":"enabling-amazon-echo-as-bluetooth-speaker-in-debian-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/enabling-amazon-echo-as-bluetooth-speaker-in-debian-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Enabling Amazon Echo as Bluetooth speaker in Debian 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trying to pair my new Amazon Echo to my Xiaomi laptop I received the following error:<\/p>\n<pre>blueman.bluez.errors.DBusFailedError: Protocol not available<\/pre>\n<p>The solution is quite simple:<\/p>\n<pre class=\"bbcode_code\">sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth<\/pre>\n<p>Then:<\/p>\n<pre>pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover<\/pre>\n<p>Just add something like this to your<\/p>\n<p>\/etc\/bash.bashrc<\/p>\n<pre># Enable Amazon Echo as Bluetooth speaker\r\n# First: apt-get install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth\r\n# Then:\r\n\r\npactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover<\/pre>\n<p>The comments will remind you on what you have to install and the last line will run the required command at you OS startup.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[527,526,529,528,385,530,525,531],"class_list":{"0":"post-1775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-di-tutto-un-po","7":"tag-alexa","8":"tag-amazon","9":"tag-amazon-echo","10":"tag-bluetooth","11":"tag-debian-2","12":"tag-debian-9","13":"tag-echo","14":"tag-pulseaudio","16":"without-featured-image"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zarrelli.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}