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Bluetooth audio on Arch/Manjaro: installing pulseaudio-bluetooth

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By Lúcio Charallo
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Bluetooth connects but audio doesn’t work, or the device doesn’t even show up in the sound options? You’re probably missing the PulseAudio module for Bluetooth:

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sudo pacman -Sy pulseaudio-bluetooth --needed --noconfirm

Then, enable and start the service:

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systemctl enable bluetooth.service
systemctl start bluetooth.service

--needed avoids reinstalling if it’s already installed. After that, restart PulseAudio (killall pulseaudio or log out/log in) and the Bluetooth device should appear normally in the audio options.

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