Attempting to activate Bluetooth on my new RasPi3 to get audio through my 'hairy maids'.
The Oticon Streamer 1.4 Device can be found and paired, but then on attempting to get the system to put its audio through it I get the error:
Failed to connect to device - could not connect to PulseAudio. Try to connect again.
Audio Device Settings shows Sound card is bcm8235 ALSA (Alsa mixer) (Default), and no Controls selected. The only Control found available was PCM, so I selected it, and a slider and mute-button appeared.
Previous experience (overall unsuccessful) in my Kubuntu 'workhorse' has told me that PulseAudio is required. ALSA, apart from anything else, has a 'mixer' that is a 'one-at-a-time selector', not allowing the simultaneous outputs that PulseAudio can.
Given this, why is PulseAudio not installed or detected as such and quoted as a necessity in the error message above?
Searching 'PulseAudio' in the repo, I find libmikmod3, libpulse0, libpulsedsp, libpulse-mainloop-glib0, libsdl1.2debian and vlc-plugin-pulse are installed. What more will I need? and should such be listed in the extended error message as above? or perhaps a link to a HOWTO giving such details/instructions?
Something for the devs to chew on? but
Hopefully helpfully ...