This is my first post here, so if I need to do something different let me know. I have read the instructions but may have missed something on posting.
Here is my problem. I have a Bluetooth speaker connected to a Toshiba laptop running Debian 10 with HA. Everything works great but I am trying to use the Bluetooth speaker as a media player using Local VLC on HA and the Bluetooth speaker does not show up in Local VLC on HA. I have spent several hours looking for a solution but other than Mark Lewis’ blog (https://marklewis.blog/2021/02/25/home-assistant-bluetooth-speaker/) I can’t find anything.
On another note that is related, I have not been able to complete Mark’s instructions because I can’t figure out how to open the console on my laptop.
That worked to get the Bluetooth working on the laptop I was not sure if it would.
It still does not work in home assistant. I will keep checking.
In the local VLC log I get:
[00007f27fe862d40] dbus interface error: Failed to connect to the D-Bus session daemon: Unable to autolaunch a dbus-daemon without a $DISPLAY for X11
[00007f27fe862d40] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[00007f27feae49b0] main libvlc error: interface “dbus,none” initialization failed
[00007f27fa398460] main interface error: no suitable interface module
[00007f27feae49b0] main libvlc error: interface “globalhotkeys,none” initialization failed
[00007f27fe89a790] main playlist: playlist is empty
[00007f27fe86f160] [http] lua interface: Lua HTTP interface
[00007f27fe862e90] [telnet] lua interface: Listening on host “telnet://:4212”.
And when I test Entity created with:
media_player:
platform: vlc_telnet
name: Default
host: 127.0.0.1
password: telnet password
I get this error in In the local VLC log:
[00007f27f9eb3c10] main decoder error: failed to create audio output
[00007f27fe893a30] vlcpulse audio output error: stream connection failure: No such entity
Repeated many times.
I am still learning. I have only been using HA for about two months.