Bluetooth speaker connected but doesn't appear in sound settings

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Hi everyone,
I have some problems making my Wonderboom speaker works with my Dell Precision 7520 laptop that uses Manjaro Gnome. More precisely, I am able to connect to it via bluetooth (i.e. it appears as connected), but it does not appear in the sound configuration (in Pavucontrol or in the sound settings) so I cannot use it as a speaker… Note that I’ve recently switched from Ubuntu to Manjaro and I didn’t encounter this problem on Ubuntu

Also, when this problem is solved, how to automatically switch to speaker audio when it is connected?

Thank you for your help!
Paul

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Something in bluetooth service, I’ve been experiencing this since the last 2 updates. Some error messages in the log but I’m too lazy to analyze. Restarting the bluetooth service then reconnect should usually fix the problem.

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Thanks for your help!
I’ve tried switching off and on Bluetooth and reconnecting device but it does not seem to work for me unfortunately…

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Are you using:

$ sudo systemctl restart bluetooth

? AFAIK the one at KDE systray doesn’t work that low.

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I installed the latest Manjaro on a new machine that uses a bluetooth dongle and I have this issue as well. On a laptop that ran older versions, I had no issues.

For me only running pkill pulseaudio and then reconnecting works, which is cumbersome and also crashes gnome-session.

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It is now fixed. I don’t know what did the fix, it was not working last time I tried but I think I needed switching on and off my computer for some changes and today, while I wanted to use leledumbo’s fix, it worked without it.
Thanks anyway!

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