Bluetooth speaker

[Andrew_Rowe]

• Platform information:
  • Hardware: CPUArchitecture/RAM/storage
    i3 8 Gbs RAM 1TB spinny H/D
  • OS: what OS is used and which version
    Deb 9
  • Java Runtime Environment: which java platform is used and what version
  • openHAB version: 2.4

I would like to play sounds (doorbell, phone ringing) on my bluetooth speaker from a rule being trigger or whatever. (I don’t need help writing the rule)
so far I found this but it is old and a little complex

Play sound over standard java sinks via pulseaudio to bluetooth device

Hi, I would love to play sounds to my bluetooth speaker. As I managed to do so with Raspian, I struggled so far with Openhab. E.g. the console command smarthome:audio play enhancedjavasound doorbell.mp3 just directs to the standard Raspberry Pi audio outputs, while the linux console command mpg321 doorbell.mp3 just works fine. Since neither the Squeezebox nor the Pulseaudio binding seem to be so far valid audio sinks for OpenHAB2, I was hoping that there is a way to re-direkt the standard …

is there a way to use the exec binding or something to play a system sound or adjust the system volume from OpenHAB?
the system already uses the bluetooth device as the system sound output

Edits:
here is what I’ve learned so far.

My Debian install came with pulseaudio installed. I installed play so it could play sends from the command line

first install play

sudo apt install sox

And for playing special formats like mp3 you must install its libraries:

sudo apt install libsox-fmt-mp3

And for use it:

play /etc/openhab2/sounds/doorbell.mp3

If you want to use it with full libraries, you must install libsox-fmt-all package:

sudo apt install libsox-fmt-all

gleaned from here

trying to install pulseaudio binding
try to create bridge… errors

02:20:19.744 [INFO ] [ome.event.ThingStatusInfoChangedEvent] - 'pulseaudio:bridge:db56ea99' changed from UNINITIALIZED to INITIALIZING
02:20:19.746 [ERROR] [.pulseaudio.internal.PulseaudioClient] - Connection refused (Connection refused)
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused)
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) ~[?:?]
	at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350) ~[?:?]
	at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206) ~[?:?]
	at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188) ~[?:?]
	at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392) ~[?:?]
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589) ~[?:?]
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:538) ~[?:?]
	at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:434) ~[?:?]
	at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:211) ~[?:?]
	at org.openhab.binding.pulseaudio.internal.PulseaudioClient.connect(PulseaudioClient.java:607) ~[?:?]
	at org.openhab.binding.pulseaudio.internal.PulseaudioClient.<init>(PulseaudioClient.java:126) ~[?:?]
	at org.openhab.binding.pulseaudio.internal.handler.PulseaudioBridgeHandler.lambda$1(PulseaudioBridgeHandler.java:131) ~[?:?]
	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) [?:?]
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) [?:?]
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$201(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180) [?:?]
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:293) [?:?]
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) [?:?]
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) [?:?]
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:?]
02:20:19.747 [ERROR] [.pulseaudio.internal.PulseaudioClient] - Connection refused (Connection refused)
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused (Connection refused)
	at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method) ~[?:?]
	at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.doConnect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:350) ~[?:?]
	at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:206) ~[?:?]
	at java.net.AbstractPlainSocketImpl.connect(AbstractPlainSocketImpl.java:188) ~[?:?]
	at java.net.SocksSocketImpl.connect(SocksSocketImpl.java:392) ~[?:?]
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:589) ~[?:?]
	at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:538) ~[?:?]
	at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:434) ~[?:?]
	at java.net.Socket.<init>(Socket.java:211) ~[?:?]
	at org.openhab.binding.pulseaudio.internal.PulseaudioClient.connect(PulseaudioClient.java:607) ~[?:?]
	at org.openhab.binding.pulseaudio.internal.PulseaudioClient.checkConnection(PulseaudioClient.java:595) ~[?:?]
	at org.openhab.binding.pulseaudio.internal.PulseaudioClient.sendRawRequest(PulseaudioClient.java:551) ~[?:?]
	at org.openhab.binding.pulseaudio.internal.PulseaudioClient.listModules(PulseaudioClient.java:162) ~[?:?]
	at org.openhab.binding.pulseaudio.internal.PulseaudioClient.update(PulseaudioClient.java:139) ~[?:?]
	at org.openhab.binding.pulseaudio.internal.PulseaudioClient.<init>(PulseaudioClient.java:127) ~[?:?]
	at org.openhab.binding.pulseaudio.internal.handler.PulseaudioBridgeHandler.lambda$1(PulseaudioBridgeHandler.java:131) ~[?:?]
	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) [?:?]
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) [?:?]
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$201(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180) [?:?]
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:293) [?:?]
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) [?:?]
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) [?:?]
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:?]
02:20:19.749 [WARN ] [ommon.WrappedScheduledExecutorService] - Scheduled runnable ended with an exception: 
java.lang.NullPointerException: null
	at org.openhab.binding.pulseaudio.internal.PulseaudioClient.sendRawRequest(PulseaudioClient.java:554) ~[?:?]
	at org.openhab.binding.pulseaudio.internal.PulseaudioClient.listModules(PulseaudioClient.java:162) ~[?:?]
	at org.openhab.binding.pulseaudio.internal.PulseaudioClient.update(PulseaudioClient.java:139) ~[?:?]
	at org.openhab.binding.pulseaudio.internal.PulseaudioClient.<init>(PulseaudioClient.java:127) ~[?:?]
	at org.openhab.binding.pulseaudio.internal.handler.PulseaudioBridgeHandler.lambda$1(PulseaudioBridgeHandler.java:131) ~[?:?]
	at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) ~[?:?]
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) ~[?:?]
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.access$201(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:180) ~[?:?]
	at java.util.concurrent.ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor$ScheduledFutureTask.run(ScheduledThreadPoolExecutor.java:293) ~[?:?]
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) [?:?]
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) [?:?]
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) [?:?]

[Gad_Ofir]

@Andrew_Rowe

m the command line

first install play

Hi i am using node-red to send exec commands, so i am sure you can do it with OH item also … if you need help i can show you in Node-red, but i am not sure how to do this on OH as standalone item

also i am using windows thanks for the above play guide in Linux … it will help i am sure