[Solved] bluetooth error: br-connection-profile-unavailable

[peer]

os debian 12 testing kde Wayland Pipewire

I installed an usb bluetooth adapter and had troubles conning devices. When I added a new device I got the error "br-connection-profile-unavailable". I added a phone, pc and headpohne. They all gave the same error.

After I long search (google) I found the solution:
- install libspa-0.2-bluetooth
- reboot
And then bluetooth worked.

I checked another pc with and there was libspa-0.2-bluetooth installed allready. I don't know why libspa-0.2-bluetooth was missing on my pc.

[sunrat]

Curious. KDE in Bookworm has Pulseaudio as default, not Pipewire. libspa-0.2-bluetooth is the bluetooth module for Pipewire however.
Good you got it working.

[ha3flt]

Installing libspa-0.2-bluetooth helped me as well, thank you.
I've just upgraded from Debian 11 to 12.2 and been receiving the same message.

[barslmn]

I had pipewire and installing libspa-0.2-bluetooth fixed it for me too. Thanks a lot.

[xueke]

Installing ibspa-0.2-bluetooth solved my problem perfectly, thanks a lot!

[pebian]

Yeah, it works for me too. Simple and nice solution.

Thanks, Peb

[Topoignaz]

Installing libspa-0.2-bluetooth, that in turn required the installation of 3 more packages, finely fixed some conflict between bluetooth and pulseaudio on my Thinkpad laptop with Debian 12 that made hard to switch between internal and bluetooth speakers.

[seamusdemora]

Installing `libspa-0.2-bluetooth` also fixed the issue on my Raspberry Pi. This `pipewire` app is a godsend... I run the Lite version of the RasPi OS, and what they include for bluetooth is pathetic! After wasting half-a-day trying to get bluez & ALSA to play sound through my BT speaker, I decided to try pipewire. It was a huge install, and then still no sound... but `libspa-0.2-bluetooth` fixed things right away.

Someone needs to drop a hint to the people who put these packages together that `libspa-0.2-bluetooth` should be included with all the other packages. I wondered, "What does this `libspa-0.2-bluetooth` package **do** anyway?" So, I investigated (see code section below). For me there were 2 very interesting items:

1. The maintainer is listed as a Raspberry Pi employee! (so why does my Lite distro stink so bad David?)
2. The Description: This package contains a plugin to make Bluetooth audio devices such as speakers and headsets [work]

Yes - indeed it does. And can you imagine **not** including such a package in pipewire?

Code: Select all

$ apt-cache show libspa-0.2-bluetooth
Package: libspa-0.2-bluetooth
Source: pipewire
Version: 0.3.65-3+rpt6+deb12u1
Architecture: armhf
Maintainer: David Turner <david.turner@raspberrypi.com>
Installed-Size: 1101
Depends: libspa-0.2-modules (= 0.3.65-3+rpt6+deb12u1), libbluetooth3 (>= 4.91), libc6 (>= 2.33), libdbus-1-3 (>= 1.9.14), libfreeaptx0 (>= 0.1.1), libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.37.3), liblc3-0 (>= 1.0.1), libldacbt-abr2 (>= 2.0.2), libldacbt-enc2 (>= 2.0.2), libopus0 (>= 1.1), libsbc1 (>= 2.0), libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.16)
Multi-Arch: same
Homepage: https://pipewire.org/
Priority: optional
Section: libs
Filename: pool/main/p/pipewire/libspa-0.2-bluetooth_0.3.65-3+rpt6+deb12u1_armhf.deb
Size: 283620
SHA256: 5a1fe837497c6619b130d77b4549dc52ad96ac034f971716bec6149b25cbb484
SHA1: 14fc59426bfbf8d88271cbdb46fd5578f327ce1f
MD5sum: e5ea21d88c119b888d7faf99c8f6092f
Description: libraries for the PipeWire multimedia server - bluetooth plugins
 PipeWire is a server and user space API to deal with multimedia
 pipelines. This includes:
 .
  - Making available sources of video (such as from a capture devices or
    application provided streams) and multiplexing this with clients.
  - Accessing sources of video for consumption.
  - Generating graphs for audio and video processing.
 .
 This package contains a plugin to make Bluetooth audio devices such as
 speakers and headsets available to the PipeWire server.
Description-md5: 75fb04ae0379cca0dccc99a487a14ebd
Original-Maintainer: Utopia Maintenance Team <pkg-utopia-maintainers@alioth-lists.debian.net>
Original-Uploaders: Jeremy Bicha <jbicha@debian.org>,
                         Dylan Aïssi <daissi@debian.org>

[jbgilbert]

Just a quick message to say thanks for this, you solved my bluetooth problem and saved me much grief

[larry77]

I also want to say thank you because I was banging my head against the floor with my first bluetooth adapter.