I must unfortunately report that that the recently reported fix does not work for me. Ubuntu 16.04 LTS connecting to Amazon Echo. Pulseaudio 1:8.0-0ubuntu3.3~xenial1, which is the latest presently available from ppa:ubuntu-audio-dev/pulse-testing as of today.
The problem appears to result in the same conditions as I have comment on in bug 1691556 and discussed at askubuntu.com https://askubuntu.com/questions/871630/cant-send-audio-to-amazon-echo- via-bluetooth Here are the syslog entries from testing today after installing the latest from pulseaudio-testing: Jun 1 10:24:23 n1 bluetoothd[1031]: a2dp-source profile connect failed for 50:F5:DA:A6:3F:EA: Device or resource busy Jun 1 10:24:23 n1 kernel: [ 423.337550] input: 50:F5:DA:A6:3F:EA as /devices/virtual/input/input22 Jun 1 10:24:26 n1 bluetoothd[1031]: /org/bluez/hci0/dev_50_F5_DA_A6_3F_EA/fd1: fd(23) ready Jun 1 10:25:26 n1 pulseaudio[5001]: [pulseaudio] sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: sink is suspended. Jun 1 10:25:41 n1 kernel: [ 500.946349] perf interrupt took too long (5021 > 5000), lowering kernel.perf_event_max_sample_rate to 25000 Jun 1 10:25:28 n1 pulseaudio[5001]: message repeated 5 times: [ [pulseaudio] sink-input.c: Failed to create sink input: sink is suspended.] -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1582213 Title: [xenial] Bluetooth device doesn't play any sound in A2DP mode unless set to HSP/HFP first To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/1582213/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs