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Bluetooth just absolutely refuses to connect to any audio sinks. I've tried with two separate speakers that I can pair with just fine on iOS, yet when I try, I get this error in blueman:

Connection Failed: DBusFailedError: Protocol not available...

It doesn't even show up in pulseaudio (probably because I can't connect).

I've googled and come across tons of "solutions" that never work. I've honestly tried so many, I forget what I've even tried.

This is important to me because I set up Ubuntu for the purpose of having a HTPC, yet it's lacking functionality to connect with Bluetooth speakers. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

tayoung
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In my case, this was solved by using these two commands: 

pactl load-module module-bluetooth-policy 
pactl load-module module-bluetooth-discover
Christian Neverdal
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Michael Galaxy
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Might want to check you have pulseaudio-module-bluetooth installed. I was having trouble until I found this post on GitHub Not saying this is an answer to this specific problem but just to make sure.

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-bluetooth
killall pulseaudio
Zanna
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Try this:

sudo /etc/init.d/bluetooth restart

pulseaudio -k

pulseaudio --start

Then go to the audio manager, and make sure the program that's generating audio has the Bluetooth "sink" as output.

Reference link - https://github.com/blueman-project/blueman/issues/304

user402751
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