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Hi, I've recently switched from Windows to Fedora Workstation and so far it is great. My only issue so far it is with bluetooth audio devices connecting but not appearing as output devices.

I've tried several fixes:

  1. Changing the controller mode from dual to bredr.

  2. Installing pavucontrol to check if the device appears there.

  3. I've replaced the old PulseAudio daemon with Pipewire.

Other bluetooth devices connect and work properly, this seem to only be an issue with audio devices. The Airpods, for example, don't even appear in pavucontrol or Gnome sound setting. They are connected via bluetooth (I've also connected them via the terminal) but they simply don't appear anywhere. I've reached a point where I don't know what exactly do to, nothing that I tried worked and is becoming a bit frustrating.

I'm writing here as maybe you guys had encounter this issue before or maybe you have any ideas what I've done wrong. Any help is appreciated.

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Weird, I tried connecting my airpods to both Fedora KDE and Workstation on my PC and laptop and they worked like a charm. The Workstation setup on the laptop is fresh and almost unchanged from stock state so I suppose they should work without any additional tinkering.

 

Connect the headphones and run pactl list sinks in terminal. What's listed there?

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