When I connect my Echo device with Ubuntu for the first time over Bluetooth. I was happy with sound etc. After one restart I found Echo is treating my PC as a Bluetooth speaker and in Sound settings, I can see Echo is acting like input device and not as an speaker.
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Now can anyone please suggest me how I can solve this issue and use the Echo device back as my Bluetooth speaker?
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Remove the Echo device from your bluetooth devices if you haven't already.
Go to the Alexa web interface. Go to settings, select the Echo you're trying to connect to, and click Bluetooth.
If you're computer is listed on this page, forget the device.
Then click Pair New Device. Note: Don't click on your computer from the web interface. This always results in the Echo pairing as an input device.
Assuming you have other speakers (or headphones available), you can run bluetoothctl scan on | grep Echo -m 1 | head -1;espeak "Found the echo device" to be alerted when the Echo is available to pair with.
The Echo should now show up in Ubuntu's bluetooth devices list. Note: Having audio playing seems to increase the success of the next step.
Finally, click on the Echo device in your bluetooth device list and connect it. It should connect as a speaker (It may take multiple attempts before it connects).
Pair or connect to echo while playing some audio on your machine. It is the only workaround I found at the moment.
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1I had the same problem.
Had to install packages apt install bluez bluez-tools pulseaudio-module-bluetoothThen restart pulseaudio with killall pulseaudio and the device was finally recognized as both input and output.
