Hello Recently I wanted to connect my iPhone 7 to a new Buster install in the same way I had many years before with an earlier iPhone and earlier Debian, so I could play music from it through my speakers.
Bluetooth setup on the Debian machine is basically working; I can connect to a variety of devices and can play audio from the PC through bluetooth headphones etc. Bluetooth setup on the phone also seems to be fine as it can connect to and use bluetooth headphones, speaker, my car etc. I have successfully paired and connected my phone and my Debian machine, but the Debian machine doesn't seem to recognise the phone as an audio source. Once paired and connected, my GNOME seems ready to use a network through the phone's bluetooth, but if I start to play audio on the phone, I get silence -- which tells me the phone expects it to work as it isn't using its speaker, but something isn't right at the computer end. Instructions on the internet are, I suspect, out of date, referring to older versions of bluez. In particular I see references to adding text to /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf, but that file does not exist on my system and according to apt-file there is no package in Buster that would put it there. Nonetheless following the possibly-antiquated instructions, after connecting the phone to the computer I try to create a loopback device for pulseaudio with: $ pactl load-module module-loopback \ source=bluez_source.XX_XX_XX_XX_XX_XX \ sink=alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo <where XX_XX etc is the Bluetooth address of my phone which I got from the Gnome bluetooth applet> which gives me the response: Failure: Module initialization failed Anyone have any advice what I should check to find what's missing? Thanks in advance Mark
