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Welcome to the bluez-alsa project wiki!

Building and Installing BlueALSA

• Patents and copyright relating to Bluetooth codecs
• Installation from source
• Yocto/OE recipe

System Integration

• Bluetooth pairing and connecting
• Systemd integration
• JACK integration
• PulseAudio integration ( experimental )

Manual Pages

The manual pages not are part of the wiki, they are included in the project sources. However, for convenience we include links to the latest versions here.

• bluealsa
• bluealsa-aplay
• bluealsa-cli
• bluealsa-rfcomm
• hcitop
• BlueALSA ALSA plugins

In the latest sources [not yet released] the D-Bus API documentation is also in manual page format:

• org.bluealsa.Manager1
• org.bluealsa.PCM1
• org.bluealsa.RFCOMM1

BlueALSA ALSA Plugins

• Using BlueALSA with other ALSA plugins
• Using BlueALSA as default ALSA PCM
• Using BlueALSA with HFP and HSP devices
• Using BlueALSA with dmix

bluealsa-aplay

• Using ALSA devices with bluealsa-aplay
• Using bluealsa-aplay with dsnoop

Specific Use Case Descriptions

• Setting up a USB audio device as a Bluetooth speaker under Ubuntu
• Using BlueALSA as BLE‐MIDI server

Archived Pages

These pages apply to older releases of BlueALSA

• Using the BlueALSA ALSA pcm plugin (for release 3.1.0 and earlier)
• Systemd integration (outdated version)