bluetooth.md

Bluetooth

Install bluez packages with pacman.

sudo pacman -S bluez bluez-utils

Install pulseaudio-bluetooth for bluetooth audio support with pacman.

sudo pacman -S pulseaudio-bluetooth

enable bluetoothctl systemd service.

sudo systemctl enable bluetooth

Enable Bluetooth's AutoEnable feature.

# > edit with:
# sudo -E nvim /etc/bluetooth/main.conf

AutoEnable=true

Add user to lp group. Not sure if this is necessary.

su
usermod -aG lp jan

Add some config to pulseaudio default config.

# > edit with:
# sudo -E nvim /etc/pulse/default.pa

load-module module-switch-on-connect # TODO: manually added

Add some config to pulseaudio system config.

# > edit with:
# sudo -E nvim /etc/pulse/system.pa

# load bluetooth modules 
load-module module-bluetooth-policy # TODO: manually added
load-module module-bluetooth-discover # TODO: manually added

Install pavucontrol with pacman.

sudo pacman -S pavucontrol

Start pulseaudio. Do not use systemd.

# > optionally kill it:
# pulseaudio -k
# > or with:
# killall pulseaudio
pulseaudio --start

To connect to bluetooth headphones, follow instructions on Arch wiki.