PulseAudio helper for Bluetooth output
26 Nov 2018 00:00:00 softwareAutomate PulseAudio-Bluetooth chores with this Python script. Resolve and select device profile automatically, and provide a single tool to fix commonly occuring issues.
When I was eventually forced to use PulseAudio (thanks to an update to Kerbal Space Program a couple of years back), my hopes were not high. My past experience with PulseAudio was, to put it nicely, not pleasant. To much of my surprise PulseAudio had improved greatly since 2009, and nowadays no longer required daily restarts.
Fast-forward to another job, and newly encountered impracticality of wired
headphones, I had to start using Bluetooth headphones. While it was possible to
set up PulseAudio with Bluetooth headphones, life wasn’t exactly rosy. I had to
manually set the output device and audio profile. Sometimes stuff would fail
for no apparent reason. This is why I wrote pabt. pabt automates some of
the chores.
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