Like most premium speakers on the market, it features a room correction feature that automatically optimizes its audio reproduction based on the unique acoustic characteristics of your room. This portable Bluetooth speaker offers a sleek design as well as a versatile performance that makes it suitable for listening to everything from music to podcasts to audiobooks. The UE BOOM2 device can be reset with a long push at the same time on the power button and the down volume button (until a sound is heard and the device shuts down), which may be helpful in combination with the above.The best UE speaker we've tested is the Ultimate Ears HYPERBOOM. In case reconnecting the bluetooth speaker will not work: see this question, the workaround therein, hopefully some good answer to it. The setting in indicator-sound-switcher affects all applications (the output device for all running applications listed under the pavucontrol Playing tab, and the "Set to fallback" option under Output Devices tab). There is also a third party panel indicator: indicator-sound-switcher.Ĭonsidering interference with pavucontrol: each setting overrides the setting of the other tool. Note that in this way specific devices can be allocated to different applications. In order to change the output device for an already playing application and in order to set an output device per application that will ignore the previously mentioned setting ('Set as fallback'), go to the Playback tab and chose for each playing application the output device: Also, disconnecting and reconnecting the bluetooth device will reset this setting back to the internal/wired output (which then will be used by all newly started applications excepting the ones to which a specific device is allocated as said below). Switching between bluetooth and other output devicesĪt this point the bluetooth speaker is visible in the sound settings too ( pavucontrol), but the sound is still coming only from the previous output device (laptop speakers, wired speakers/headphones), namely the one that has the "Set as fallback" option checked under the Output Devices tab.Ĭhanging that will not affect the already playing applications, but only those started after this change. The bluetooth speaker should appear in the list and ready to be connected: If that doesn't work, do systemctl enable rviceĪfter that, running again sudo hciconfig hci0 up If the bluetooth device is blocked (soft or hard blocked), unblock it That seemed to be the cause of the initial problem: the bluetooth speaker not being seen by the computer. The computer's bluetooth was 'soft blocked' for some reason. On and not blocked, you can check that with the rfkill command But that gave Can't init device hci0: Operation not possible due to RF-kill (132).īefore start scanning make sure that your bluetooth device is turned At this point a small light has to be blinking on the bluetooth button.įollowing the instruction from the link above, and assuming that all necessary tools were already installed, I have tried to start scanning with the command sudo hciconfig hci0 up. This may vary according to OS, kernel and hardware, but I think it may be helpful, as I have found a lot of unsolved issues posted here.Ī large amount of information is available at this page: Linux bluetooth setup with bluez and hcitool, on which this answer is partly based.įirst, be sure that your computer bluetooth is on, that the speaker is powered and its bluetooth capability activated: press the power button until a sound is heard, the same for the bluetooth button. Before anything else: be sure there no other devices like smartphones or laptops are connecting to the same USB external device.
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