Airpods Pro Not Connecting

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I am trying to listen to my music on my Manjaro (KDE Plasma, Stable) using my Airpods Pro.

I could pair them I believe after following the steps here Bluetooth Questions - Airpods - #5 by zzp1012

Now I see my Airpods Pro in bluetooth, I tried to press the connect button but I got a message saying "Connection to the device failed "

I disabled bluetooth, enabled, rebooted… etc. Still not connecting.

I did my homework and searched the forum and found Automatic Bluetooth Pairing - Headphones - #3 by A4orce84

But this is about auto connecting Airpods AND suggested using something from AUR (which I won’t like to try)

What can I do to get my Airpods automatically connects to my system when I put them on.

I see it “Paired” and “Trusted”.

Update:
In settings I get “br-connection-canceled”
Thanks.

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The key is to trust the device first, otherwise the Device connection will be refused.

Trust>Pair>connect

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I see it is already trusted. Though I don’t remember I saw something on the screen asking me to trust it.

Where to reach this?

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This doesn’t mean much… it must be set in the correct order.

You can find a Search function, right click on the bluetooth icon in your taskbar.

When you see your device in the GUI, you can right click on it.

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I just deleted, repeated from the beginning till I got "The device ‘xxx’s AirPods Pro’ has been set up and can now be used. "

Now I see it is connected but no sound coming to it! (surprisingly not even in headphones or speakers! - they were working)

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That seems odd. On mate I always pair then trust.

I also get a popup notification (several actually) asking for permission to connect, with 3 options, Allow, Always Allow, and Cancel. For auto connection Always Allow has to be selected. This is with some cheap bluetooth headphones.

That’s what happens if I don’t allow.

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I didn’t get any of these.
Now, clicking the speaker button in the toolbar I get like a menu with 3 options: 1- Speakers 2 - Headphones (with the name of my Airpods), 3 - Internal Microphone.
with an option to select any of them.

Selecting the first one I get sound now in speakers and on headphones (when plugged 3.5 mm) Selecting the second option which is my Airpods I get nothing.

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WOW.
I disconnected the Airpods (from the blutooth icon) then connected again and it just worked.

So, it is OK now.

@Kobold, you really helped when you mentioned the order to be done.
Thank you for your help.

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I know it is odd :wink:

I was thinking the same, as i bought a brand new Bluetooth stick and a Brandnew XBox One X/s wireless gamepad, 3 year’s ago and i was ripping my hair off but only Trust>Pair>Connect was working… otherwise Gandalf will tell your device “You shall not pass!” :man_mage:

I have no idea about the logic behind this, not to pair your device first… and set “trusted” after it… but it is as it is.

Im glad i could help :slight_smile:

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All distros I tried before I had to be clicking accept, yes, ok, … etc

This is a good thing it just did it on its own.
Maybe once I am connecting it myself this means it should be automatically as well trusted.

The thing I found weird really was that it got connected automatically but no sound till I disconnected and connected again.

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The next time or after a restart, it should connect automatically without doing anything special.

At least this is how it works with my xbox bluetooth gamepad.

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