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Kodi Bluetooth?

I am building a mini media player for a friend in a very rural area without internet. It is progressing well. I got a 32” monitor and use it’s usb to power a raspberry pi 3 B+ running raspbian stretch with the hdmi connected to the monitor for video and audio. This all works. I added Kodi and using wondershare video converter I’ve been capturing my dvd’s And converting to MP4. This also works fine. My friend had an old dead Mac with mp3 music so I’ve been scraping the hard drive to recover songs and plug those into Kodi music and this works.
What I can’t get to work is Bluetooth audio from Kodi to a Bluetooth anything. I can get pairing and connect at the raspian level but Kodi ignores it.
Help?
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Brandon Lyon

Have you tried selecting your audio output device as bluetooth? Either at the OS level or within Kodi?
Here is a pretty good thread about using bluetooth from Kodi
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This works for VLC audio but not for Kodi 18.x. You can see from the image the only options are ALSA HDMI Analog. It’s like I need an add on or install?
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For my own bluetooth audio use cases I use a bluetooth audio adapter. That way I don't have to tinker with bluetooth on the computer, just on the audio dongle.

Here are a couple of examples:
https://amazon.com/gp/product/B01H6I3YGK/
https://amazon.com/gp/product/B01G3J1I5M/
The dongle idea worked but requires more power off the raspberry pi which, with an external sata and touch screen pushed it to error out. I didn’t want multiple power supplies or a powered usb hub. This in addition to Bluetooth being built into the 3 B+ made that solution less than elegant. The core problem appears to be with Kodi itself - so I have abandoned Kodi.
Thanks for keeping us updated. Sorry it didn't work out.
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