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This gist will show how to setup Raspbian Stretch as a headless Bluetooth A2DP audio sink. This will allow your phone, laptop or other Bluetooth device to play audio wirelessly through a Rasperry Pi.

Motivation

A quick search will turn up a plethora of tutorials on setting up A2DP on the Raspberry Pi. However, I felt this gist was necessary because this solution is:

• Automatic & Headless - Once setup, the system is entirely automatic. No user iteration is required to pair, connect or start playback. Therefore the Raspberry Pi can be run headless.
• Simple - This solution has few dependencies, readily available packages and minimal configuration.
• Up to date - As of December 2017. Written for Raspbian Stretch & Bluez 5.43

Prerequisites

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#!/bin/bash

# WARNING: to use "--binary-images hdd", see this bug: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=773833
# WARNING: to get persistence encryption working, apply this fix: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=767195

# Italian locale & keyboard, default boot with luks encrypted persistence
# lb config --distribution jessie --debian-installer live --binary-images iso-hybrid --archive-areas "main contrib non-free" --bootappend-live "boot=live persistence persistence-encryption=luks locales=it_IT.UTF-8 keyboard-layouts=it username=utente hostname=D8"
# lb config --distribution jessie --debian-installer live --binary-images iso-hybrid --archive-areas "main contrib non-free" --bootappend-live "boot=live persistence persistence-encryption=luks keyboard-layouts=it username=user hostname=D8"
 
# Default locale & norwegian keyboard, pxe boot