Headphones Not Visible in Roon Remote on Arch Running Roon Bridge (ref#5YC3HI)

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What’s happening?

· I'm having trouble connecting to Roon

What type of connection issue?

· Something else

How can we help?

· None of the above

Other options

· Other

Describe the issue

Roon Bridge on Arch - headphones not visible in Remote.

Describe your network setup

Roon Bridge on Arch works as expected. Settings — Audio on Roon Remote shows one analog ALSA device and three HDMI ALSA devices, but the connected headphone doesn't show up, even after restarting the roonbridge service. Is there a way to play music through the Bluetooth headphones with Roonbridge, please?

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Roon is using ALSA. You may have to install additional software to make the Bluetooth stack on your Linux distribution use ALSA – but this seems to me as beyond the scope of Support and should probably better be discussed in Linux.

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You pointed me in the right direction. Thanks. Looked into Pipewire — ALSA — Bluetooth and decided to install Squeezebox Lite again. That first path seems closed. :slight_smile:

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If you want to use a Bluetooth headphone you need a loopback device like so:

modprobe snd-aloop
alsaloop -C hw:Loopback,1 -P bluealsa -t 100000 -n -S 1
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Thanks, Robin.
Going to test this out this weekend.

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