Before I go any deeper into this: has anyone actually managed to use Amazon Echo Dot OR any other bluetooth smart speaker as a Bluetooth audio sink in Openhab that is run with Raspberry Pi?
I’ve now tried the best I can to get it working:
- I’ve installed Pulseaudio bindings.
- Set up pipewire-pulse server, which is configured to run on port 4711. I can see this with “pactl -s tcp:127.0.0.1:4711 list sinks”.
- Set up the thing server in Openhab and it says ONLINE
- Set up audio sink thing in Openhab but it says OFFLINE
- The Openhab audio sink name is the exact name of the “bluez_sink…”
- Set user and tcp permissions
Pulseaudio Sink binding however remains OFFLINE and karaf console only shows the two default audio sinks.
Openhab logs don’t show anything meaningful.
any ideas?