pavucontrol doesn't show Bluetooth headset

I'm trying to use an LG HBS700 Bluetooth headset with my laptop (Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon running Xubuntu 12.10). I'm able to successfully connect the headset using the Blueman program, but when I go to pavucontrol, all I see under the "Output Devices" tab is "Speakers" and "Headphones", neither of which work with the headset.

I've tried setting the headset to both "Audio Sink" and "Headset service", but neither worked.

Solution 1:

To enable a Bluetooth audio sink in pulseaudio we need to make sure that pulseaudio-module-bluetooth is installed.

Then we also have to load the pulseaudio module module-bluetooth-discover to enable creating an output sink for pulseaudio. This can be done by adding the following line to our /etc/pulse/default.pa:

load-module module-bluetooth-discover

To switch the output sink to the headset whenever it is present we can also add the following module here:

load-module module-switch-on-connect

Settings take effect after a restart of the pulseaudio server either by log out and log in or with

pulseaudio -k

Switching to the Bluetooth audio sink can also be done with pavucontrol .

• How do I switch to another audio output sink in XFCE?

Solution 2:

I know this is a bit of an old post. But as I recently had the same problem I came across a rather simple solution: just install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth

sudo apt-get install pulseaudio-module-bluetooth

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1909957

good luck with that :)