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I am currently setting up a bluetooth connectivity system for my garage to play music through. I have got the music playing and running smoothly, but I cannot figure out how get the pulseaudio daemon to run from startup or from a script. I'm hesitant to try random google searches since I don't want to break something important! I guess im just unsure how to proceed! any amount would help!

Here's the link/guide i used in case someone needs to take a look.

Setup Raspberry Pi 3 as bluetooth speaker

Thanks in advance!

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electricsurge31
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    If you are using Raspbian check systemctl list-unit-files | grep pulse. If you installed pulseaudio via apt, there should be a service available already, you just have to enable it. – goldilocks Sep 25 '16 at 13:00

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You could add the command to your /etc/rc.local file.

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In your /etc/rc.local file add:

su -c 'pulseaudio --start' - pi
echo connect 00:00:00:00:00:00 | bluetoothctl

before the exit 0 command.

This works if you have already paired and trusted your bluetooth device. Make sure to change 00:00:00:00:00:00 to your bluetooth device address.

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