Hello,
I want to use a bluetooth dongle to stream audio to wireless devices, but there is a problem with, two services allocated for the same bus name org.bluez causing it to refuse the operation. Installing bluez again causes the same error. Bluetooth isn't soft blocked nor hard blocked. Zorin knows that the dongle is attached.
There may be more problems along the way to the solution.
Thank you in advance.
Welcome to the forum!
Just wanting to clarify, you want to stream audio from your computer to this bluetooth device (speaker? Might be nice to know what devices the audio will be going to). And by wireless devices, do you mean that you wish to stream multiple bluetooth devices at the same time? If so, that would most likely be the culprit.
There are certain bluetooth devices that will allow streaming to multiple devices at once, but that device has to support it in the first place. It's a newer thing thats been making the rounds, so if your adapter is older, it most likely doesn't support this feature. I believe once you have something that supports multi stream you could then make it work, but it may require some configuration at that point as well.
I mean, I want to stream on bluetooth via the dongle to the wireless devices (in my case hearing aids that supports bluetooth). And I don't need to stream to multiple devices just the hearing aids and that's it. I have 2 dongles from different brands but both supports bluetooth 5.3, I have one from Tp-link and one from Sounix.
Ok I think I understand a little better. I don't have a particularly great grasp on how the hearing aids work. I assume that one hearing aid you want to pair to one dongle, is that more or less how that would work? Not like earbuds where they connect (both of them) as one device to one dongle.
They both communicate with each other so if i connect one hearing aid, both will stream sound.
Ok I see. So they behave similarly to standard earbuds then, good to know. Do you have any other bluetooth devices around that you can try to connect? I'm just wanting to make see if it's any bluetooth device can't connect or just your hearing aids.
Well, The bluetooth service from Zorin OS (i think) can't find them. When i try to power on the bluetooth service in the terminal it shows some errors.
'Failed to start bluetooth.service: Unit bluetooth.service failed to load properly, please adjust/correct and reload service manager: File exists
See system logs and 'systemctl status bluetooth.service' for details.'
If you run this in your terminal, what does it tell you about the bluetooth status? It might be worth doing a
sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade
Then rebooting just in case something had a hiccup on the last boot or an update in between screwed something up.
○ bluetooth.service - Bluetooth service
Loaded: error (Reason: Unit bluetooth.service failed to load properly, please adjust/correct and reload service manager: File exists)
Active: inactive (dead)
Docs: man:bluetoothd(8)
jan 07 17:47:17 dzorin systemd[1]: bluetooth.service: Two services allocated for the same bus name org.bluez, refusing operation.
jan 07 17:47:18 dzorin systemd[1]: bluetooth.service: Two services allocated for the same bus name org.bluez, refusing operation.
jan 07 17:59:14 dzorin systemd[1]: bluetooth.service: Two services allocated for the same bus name org.bluez, refusing operation.
jan 07 17:59:27 dzorin systemd[1]: bluetooth.service: Two services allocated for the same bus name org.bluez, refusing operation.
jan 07 18:58:50 dzorin systemd[1]: bluetooth.service: Two services allocated for the same bus name org.bluez, refusing operation.
So going from here seems like some fixes that may help:
usb - Cannot activate bluetooth on Ubuntu 22.04 - Ask Ubuntu
sudo systemctl restart bluetooth
sudo apt-get install blueman
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
rfkill list
sudo rm -r /var/lib/bluetooth/
sudo systemctl restart bluetooth
lsmod | grep bluetooth
journalctl | grep -i bluetooth
They also mention making sure that you haven't installed another version of Bluez as a snap, which may cause this as well. Could check that by doing
snap list