Chromium Bluetooth Audio

BradD · January 5, 2017 at 1:33 AM

I can't get my bluetooth audio to work when I go into Chrome. I am running Kodi 17.0 beta on an Intel Brix with a Celeron N2807.
I logged in and checked my audio devices and here is the result.
LibreELEC (community) Version: 7.90.010
BrixElec:~ # aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC283 Analog [ALC283 Analog]
Subdevices: 0/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
BrixElec:~ #

The sound is working fine for everything else.
Any help would be appreciated.

**lrusak** · January 5, 2017 at 1:38 AM Official Post

chromium is not built with pulseaudio support.

Edit: it actually is built with pulseaudio support.

What are you trying to do?

You can set the custom audio device in the chromium addon settings

BradD · January 5, 2017 at 1:55 AM

I use this box in my kitchen to stream TV from my HD Homerun and to listen to music off my Subsonic server. I want to access my music server through the Chromium browser but I'm not getting any audio. I have played around with the custom audio device in settings but I don't really know what I'm doing.

**lrusak** · January 5, 2017 at 3:06 AM Official Post

Why not use the kodi subsonic addon?

GitHub - lrusak/plugin.audio.subsonic: Kodi plugin to stream music from Subsonic.

BradD · January 5, 2017 at 3:52 AM

Quote from lrusak

Why not use the kodi subsonic addon?

GitHub - lrusak/plugin.audio.subsonic: Kodi plugin to stream music from Subsonic.

I clicked on your link, how do I install your repository. I don't understand the explanation.

**lrusak** · January 5, 2017 at 4:01 AM Official Post

Quote from BradD

I clicked on your link, how do I install your repository. I don't understand the explanation.

Download the zip file and install the addon that way in kodi

BradD · January 5, 2017 at 4:24 AM

Got it installed but it keeps saying server error. I know my server address, user name and password are correct.

**lrusak** · January 5, 2017 at 5:04 AM Official Post

Check the api version and legacy auth options

BradD · January 5, 2017 at 5:33 AM

Quote from lrusak

Check the api version and legacy auth options

The Subsonic plugin doesn't even work with the default demo server. I tried installing it on my chromebox running LibreElec and it doesn't work on that machine either. I was hoping to get rid of windows on my Brix and just run LibreElec but it's getting too frustrating. Everything worked fine on Windows including bluetooth audio but my hard drive kept running out of room so I thought I would give LibreElec a try. Thanks for your help.

**lrusak** · January 5, 2017 at 5:56 AM Official Post

Quote from BradD

The Subsonic plugin doesn't even work with the default demo server. I tried installing it on my chromebox running LibreElec and it doesn't work on that machine either. I was hoping to get rid of windows on my Brix and just run LibreElec but it's getting too frustrating. Everything worked fine on Windows including bluetooth audio but my hard drive kept running out of room so I thought I would give LibreElec a try. Thanks for your help.

Would need to see a kodi debug log

I use madsonic but they should be api compatible

BradD · January 5, 2017 at 6:54 AM

Log file for subsonic

kodi Log - Pastebin.com

**lrusak** · January 5, 2017 at 7:34 AM Official Post

Quote from BradD

Log file for subsonic

kodi Log - Pastebin.com

ah damn, sorry, the git submodule won't clone with the zip

you would have to fix it via SSH

Code

wget https://github.com/crustymonkey/py-sonic/archive/master.tar.gz
tar xf master.tar.gz
mv py-sonic-master/* /storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.audio.subsonic/lib/py-sonic/

BradD · January 5, 2017 at 4:26 PM

Quote from lrusak
ah damn, sorry, the git submodule won't clone with the zip

you would have to fix it via SSH
Code
wget https://github.com/crustymonkey/py-sonic/archive/master.tar.gz
tar xf master.tar.gz
mv py-sonic-master/* /storage/.kodi/addons/plugin.audio.subsonic/lib/py-sonic/

Thanks I'll try this tonight when I get home. I would still like to get my bluetooth audio working in Chromium. Do you know what I would put in the custom audio setting to make this work?

**lrusak** · January 5, 2017 at 6:48 PM Official Post

sorry again, we actually don't build chromium with pulseaudio support at this time.

LibreELEC.tv/package.mk at master · LibreELEC/LibreELEC.tv · GitHub

BradD · January 5, 2017 at 7:54 PM

Ok...I thought you said in you edited post#2 that it was built with pulse_audio support.
I tried your Subsonic fix but it is still crashing.
Log KODI Log - Pastebin.com
[hr]
Just found this in the KODI forums. This guy claims the subsonic plug-in is broken and he has created a fork and fixed it. I'll try it tonight.
Updated the Subsonic addon !

roberto.lissandrin · January 11, 2017 at 7:14 PM

Quote from lrusak

chromium is not built with pulseaudio support.

Edit: it actually is built with pulseaudio support.

What are you trying to do?

You can set the custom audio device in the chromium addon settings

My libreelec kodi work with my Bluetooth speaker But chromium addon do not work With Bluetooth But whith speaker. In setup addon chromium the re is a possibiliy to set custodia audio device But i do not know what write in this field Can you help me?
Thanks and sorry for my Bad english

**lrusak** · January 11, 2017 at 7:16 PM Official Post

chromium is not linked with pulseaudio therefor pulseaudio cannot be used in chromium.

I have tested linking pulseaudio in but it will not let you choose an alsa device so we can't have that.

roberto.lissandrin · January 12, 2017 at 5:02 PM

Quote from lrusak

You write:

You can set the custom audio device in the chromium addon settings

What i must write in the chromium addon settings for audio custom bluetooth?

An example please....

Thanks
roberto from italy