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This is a guide on how I got a pair of bluetooth stereo headphones on Arch Linux.

Prepeare the Environment¶

• Make sure the system is up to date:
  

  pacman -Syu
  

• Install a few dependencies:
  

  pacman -S pulseaudio-alsa pulseaudio-bluetooth bluez bluez-libs bluez-utils bluez-firmware bluez-hid2hci pavucontrol
  

• Start the bluetooth service:
  

  systemctl start bluetooth
  

• Put the bluetooth headphones into pairing mode.

• Use the bluetoothctl command line utility to pair and connect:
  

  bluetoothctl
  

  • Turn on the bluetooth adapter on the Arch computer, and enable scanning:
    

    power on
    agent on
    default-agent
    scan on
    

  • Pair with a device:
    

    pair 1B:05:12:11:24:B4
    trust 1B:05:12:11:24:B4
    connect 1B:05:12:11:24:B4
    

NOTE: I had problems with the audio sink automatically being set as the default device. So I just use pavucontrol to set where the audio output goes.

Resources¶

• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth