How to connect pi 2 to Bluetooth speaker?

[Gershy13]

Is it possible to connect the pi 2 with a usb Bluetooth adapter to a Bluetooth speaker? And the pi zero w?

Thanks
Gershy13

[gpbenton (Graham)]

I found that the instructions for creating the connection on this thread were quite good, unless you have upgraded to stretch, in which case they are outdated.

TTS on Bluetooth speaker via Raspberry Pi

Hi there, This demo provides the following custom components for Home Assistant, and allows them to place nicely together: Bluetooth tracker (presence detection) Bluetooth speaker (for TTS) Head over to the GitHub repo, where you can find the relevant files and documentation to get started: Finally got this working in my setup. I have HA running on a Raspberry Pi, and wanted to use a spare Bluetooth speaker for TTS. Got some great ideas from this post: I also used some of the steps fr…

[Gershy13]

Thanks. It works with any external Bluetooth USB? And what’s stretch? I’m on hassio

[gpbenton (Graham)]

Sorry, I didn’t notice this was in the hass.io section, that link doesn’t apply. Someone else will have to explain how to do it.

Stretch is the latest version of the Raspian OS. To be honest, I have no idea if hass.io even uses Raspian, but you won’t get to see it, even if it does.

[Gershy13]

Ohh ok thanks.