# Send audio from Musicbox through bluetooth

**URL:** <https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/send-audio-from-musicbox-through-bluetooth/168>\
**Category:** Pi MusicBox (archive)\
**Created:** [September 13, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/send-audio-from-musicbox-through-bluetooth/168 "2014-09-13T14:05:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![gavin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/439d5e/32.png) [@gavin](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/gavin)\
**Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 2:05pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/send-audio-from-musicbox-through-bluetooth/168/1 "2014-09-13T14:05:51Z")

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Hi there, just wondering if anyone has been able to use Pi Musicbox to stream audio to bluetooth speakers? Google finds me lots of (non Musicbox) projects to use a Raspberry as bluetooth speakers, so it looks like I can get a bluetooth dongle working on it. But how would I use that as the ‘soundcard’ for musicbox? Thanks, Gavin

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**Author:** ![gavin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/439d5e/32.png) [@gavin](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/gavin)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2014, 12:23pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/send-audio-from-musicbox-through-bluetooth/168/2 "2014-09-14T12:23:26Z")

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Well I’ve got a bluetooth dongle & speaker connected by following these instructions: [http://blog.whatgeek.com.pt/2014/04/20/raspberry-pi-bluetooth-wireless-speaker/](http://blog.whatgeek.com.pt/2014/04/20/raspberry-pi-bluetooth-wireless-speaker/).

Now trying to work out how to get MusicBox to play through it, so if anyone can help I’d be grateful.

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**Author:** ![woutervanwijk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/woutervanwijk/32/15_2.png) [@woutervanwijk](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/woutervanwijk)\
**Post date:** [September 14, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/send-audio-from-musicbox-through-bluetooth/168/3 "2014-09-14T16:32:24Z")

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It could work if you follow the instructions. Use /etc/asound.conf instead of ./asoundrc You probably have to disable audio autodetection in /opt/musicbox/startup.sh because it overwrites /etc/asound.conf

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**Author:** ![Lunz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e36b37/32.png) [@Lunz](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Lunz)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2014, 5:23am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/send-audio-from-musicbox-through-bluetooth/168/4 "2014-10-21T05:23:58Z")

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Hi Gavin,

Were you able to send the audio to a bluetooth speaker? I want to do the same in another project of mine.

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![gavin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/439d5e/32.png) [@gavin](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/gavin)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 8:00am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/send-audio-from-musicbox-through-bluetooth/168/5 "2014-10-23T08:00:31Z")

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Hi Lunz,

Not yet – got it half working but no further. Still on the list of things to do, I’m afraid!

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**Author:** ![kingosticks](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/858c86/32.png) [@kingosticks](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/kingosticks)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2014, 8:30am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/send-audio-from-musicbox-through-bluetooth/168/6 "2014-10-23T08:30:50Z")

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Once you’ve got it generally working (having taken @woutervanwijk’s advice) you may need to set Mopidy’s audio/output setting to something like ‘alsasink device=bluetooth’. There’s a lot of evolving info at [https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy/issues/705](https://github.com/mopidy/mopidy/issues/705) that may be interesting but your original link alone should be sufficient to get it working.

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**Author:** ![Gabriel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de0a6/32.png) [@Gabriel](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/Gabriel)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 12:34pm UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/send-audio-from-musicbox-through-bluetooth/168/7 "2014-12-30T12:34:24Z")

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I test the PI MusicBox software and i find it very cool, I find also it would be very nice if you could add a solution to send Music through an USB Bluetooth dongle. I hope you could find a solution for this.

Thanks !

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**Author:** ![jodal](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/discourse.mopidy.com/jodal/32/2564_2.png) [@jodal](https://discourse.mopidy.com/u/jodal)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2026, 11:47am UTC](https://discourse.mopidy.com/t/send-audio-from-musicbox-through-bluetooth/168/8 "2026-02-19T11:47:50Z")

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