2019-02-14, 23:20
Hello!
I switched from jack-plug headphones to Bluetooth, but learned that Kodi 18 does not support it on my Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with Raspbian 9 Stretch. There is already a thread on this topic in the Raspberry pi section without comment. In the System->Audio section Audio Output settings allow for the choice ALSA:default, HDMI, Analog, Both. As i found nowhere else an option to configure Bluetooth headphones in Kodi 18, i tried to make my Bluetooth headphone the default ALSA playback device. Modifying the .asoundrc appropriately and testing the Bluetooth connection to my headphone it was properly configured as ALSA default playback device. So, i selected the Audio playback device Alsa:default from the Kodi System->Audio audio Output settings and instead of hearing sound through my Bluetooth headphones, it came again on HDMI. this tells me that the ALSA:default option does not really use the ALSA driver for playback. This might be a simple programming error of the Menu entry for Audio Output. But i ask myself, why there is no more option to turn on Bluetooth speakers in Kodi? I suppose that Bluetooth headphones are a technically up-to-date way of consuming your media, so it would be reasonable that Kodi allows its use also on Raspberry Pi multimedia centers running on Raspbian. I saw other reports using Bluetooth headphones successfully with OpenElec, but really i think it would not be too hard, to get it working under Raspbian too?
I switched from jack-plug headphones to Bluetooth, but learned that Kodi 18 does not support it on my Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with Raspbian 9 Stretch. There is already a thread on this topic in the Raspberry pi section without comment. In the System->Audio section Audio Output settings allow for the choice ALSA:default, HDMI, Analog, Both. As i found nowhere else an option to configure Bluetooth headphones in Kodi 18, i tried to make my Bluetooth headphone the default ALSA playback device. Modifying the .asoundrc appropriately and testing the Bluetooth connection to my headphone it was properly configured as ALSA default playback device. So, i selected the Audio playback device Alsa:default from the Kodi System->Audio audio Output settings and instead of hearing sound through my Bluetooth headphones, it came again on HDMI. this tells me that the ALSA:default option does not really use the ALSA driver for playback. This might be a simple programming error of the Menu entry for Audio Output. But i ask myself, why there is no more option to turn on Bluetooth speakers in Kodi? I suppose that Bluetooth headphones are a technically up-to-date way of consuming your media, so it would be reasonable that Kodi allows its use also on Raspberry Pi multimedia centers running on Raspbian. I saw other reports using Bluetooth headphones successfully with OpenElec, but really i think it would not be too hard, to get it working under Raspbian too?