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Bluetooth headsets with Pulseaudio

{
  hardware.pulseaudio = {
    enable = true;
    package = pkgs.pulseaudioFull;
  };
  hardware.bluetooth.enable = true;
}

After updating the configuration

nixos-rebuild switch

I had to restart the system for pulseaudio to load the bluetooth module.

pactl list should show the bluetooth module.

As I'm not using a desktop-manager I've configured the device from the command line following ArchLinux instructions

$ bluetoothctl
[bluetooth] # power on
[bluetooth] # agent on
[bluetooth] # default-agent
[bluetooth] # scan on
...put device in pairing mode and wait [hex-address] to appear here...
[bluetooth] # pair [hex-address]
[bluetooth] # connect [hex-address]

I've then played some audio and opened configured PulseAudio using pavucontrol. I changed the headset profile to "High Fidelity Playback (A2DP Sink)" for decent audio quality.

How-Tos

scripting pulseaudio,bluetooth and jack

@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
-== Enabling Bluetooth in NixOS ==
+== Bluetooth headsets with Pulseaudio ==
-Enabling Bluetooth is as simple as putting this in your configuration.nix:
+<pre class="nix">{
+  hardware.pulseaudio = {
+    enable = true;
+    package = pkgs.pulseaudioFull;
+  };
+  hardware.bluetooth.enable = true;
+}</pre>
+After updating the configuration
-<pre>
+<pre class="console">nixos-rebuild switch</pre>
-hardware.bluetooth.enable = true;
+I had to restart the system for pulseaudio to load the bluetooth module.
-</pre>
-== Bluez 5 ==
+<code>pactl list</code> should show the bluetooth module.
-<del>To use Bluez 5, you need something like this in your Nixpkgs config (in your <code>~/.nixpkgs/config.nix</code>):</del>
-Bluez5 is now the default version (as of 2017-06-30)
+As I'm not using a desktop-manager I've configured the device from the command line following [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bluetooth_Headset ArchLinux instructions]
-<pre>
+<pre class="console">$ bluetoothctl
-pkgs : {
+[bluetooth] # power on
-  packageOverrides = pkgs : {
+[bluetooth] # agent on
-    bluez = pkgs.bluez5;
+[bluetooth] # default-agent
-  }
+[bluetooth] # scan on
-}
+...put device in pairing mode and wait [hex-address] to appear here...
-</pre>
+[bluetooth] # pair [hex-address]
+[bluetooth] # connect [hex-address]</pre>
+I've then played some audio and opened configured PulseAudio using pavucontrol. I changed the headset profile to &quot;High Fidelity Playback (A2DP Sink)&quot; for decent audio quality.
+== How-Tos ==
+* [http://anderspapitto.com/posts/2016-11-07-scripting_pulseaudio_bluetooth_jack.html scripting pulseaudio,bluetooth and jack]