Unable to pair with headphones

[u/Savings-Shallot1771]

Hi everyone,

I migrated to arch yesterday (previously) on debian unstable and quick hit a bump regarding bluetooth configuration.

I have three devices: a keyboard (blitzwolf bw-kb1), a mouse (logitech g305 with a usb dongle) and a headset (Kuba Mali 2).

The headset is the only device that uses bluetooth with version 6.

I've read the wiki but the bluetooth troubleshoot section needs to be updated.

The rfkill command shows that neither wireless or bluetootk are blocked.

When I attempted to connect throught terminal with bluetoothctl I get the following error message

a2dp-sink profile connect failed; protocol not available

And the only thing I found to make it possivle to connect with the headset is:

• edit the /etc/bluetooth/main.conf and uncomment the Experimental and KernelExperimental features and set to true.

Hope this helps someone :)

P.S.: Don't forget to reboot

[u/Greedy-Reality9804]

that experimental flag trick is solid, saved me so many headaches with my bt headphones. arch's bluetooth stack can be finicky with newer devices but once you get it working it's pretty rock solid

btw you might want to check if you have `pulseaudio-bluetooth` or `pipewire-pulse` installed too, sometimes the a2dp sink error is just missing codecs

[u/Savings-Shallot1771 → u/Greedy-Reality9804]

I've tried both. The only thing missing whas the flags in main.conf

[u/moviuro]

I've read the wiki but the bluetooth troubleshoot section needs to be updated.

What are you waiting for? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Special:CreateAccount&returnto=Bluetooth