I have a Marshall Willen 2 Bluetooth speaker (wich works also as a handsfree device, for example as a mic/speaker for phone or a softphone)
Following some guides i was able to pair and connect it with bluetooth in HA, once connected to it, getting the info from bluetoothct return
[WILLEN]> info
Device 78:5E:A2:D5:97:CD (public)
Name: WILLEN
Alias: WILLEN
Class: 0x00240414 (2360340)
Icon: audio-card
Paired: yes
Bonded: yes
Trusted: yes
Blocked: no
Connected: yes
LegacyPairing: no
UUID: Serial Port (00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Audio Sink (0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: A/V Remote Control Target (0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Advanced Audio Distribu.. (0000110d-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: A/V Remote Control (0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: A/V Remote Control Cont.. (0000110f-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Handsfree (0000111e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Generic Access Profile (00001800-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Vendor specific (df21fe2c-2515-4fdb-8886-f12c4d67927c)
Battery Percentage: 0x1e (30)
then when i get back to terminal and restart ha audio (ha audio restart)
HA disconnect and then reconnect but it looks it reconnect to Handsfree and i am not able to select it as output of my VLC Local Add on
[core-ssh ~]$ ha audio info
audio:
application: []
card:
- driver: module-bluez5-device.c
index: 0
name: bluez_card.78_5E_A2_D5_97_CD
profiles:
- active: false
description: Handsfree Head Unit (HFP)
name: handsfree_head_unit
- active: true
description: "Off"
name: "off"
input: []
output:
- applications: []
card: null
default: true
description: Dummy Output
index: 0
mute: false
name: auto_null
volume: 1
host: 172.30.32.4
update_available: false
version: 2025.08.0
version_latest: 2025.08.0
i tried to connect passing the profile UUID (the command works correctly) but it looks output of ha audio is alwasy “Dummy Output”.
in the past (for no obvious reason) i was able to connect to audio sink, and have the bluetooth speaker as an output for my Local VLC
any suggestion?