Bug 464068

Summary: Bluetooth audio randomly cuts out for 2-10 seconds.
Product: [Unmaintained] Bluedevil Reporter: Angelo Campos <noobilla>
Component: generalAssignee: David Rosca <nowrep>
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM    
Severity: normal CC: nicolas.fella, plasma-bugs-null
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 5.26.5   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Arch Linux   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed/Implemented In:
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Description Angelo Campos 2023-01-09 21:52:40 UTC 
SUMMARY
Bluetooth on 2 different audio devices cuts in and out randomly when idle using just youtube or spotify.
It doesn't disconnect it just doesn't play audio then when it plays audio again it has leftover audio from before it cut out for a millisecond. I tried all the audio codecs available on both devices with the latest Archlinux kernel and an LTS kernel.


STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Turn on the system.
2. Connect with bluetooth.
3. Play audio. 

OBSERVED RESULT
Connects and registers devices fine but the audio randomly cuts out.

EXPECTED RESULT
Connect and register fine and play audio without cutting in and out.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: XeroLinux
KDE Plasma Version: 5.26.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.101.0
Qt Version: 5.15.8
Kernel Version: 6.1.4-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i3-10100F CPU @ 3.60GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650/PCIe/SSE2
Manufacturer: ASUS
Comment 1 Nicolas Fella 2023-01-09 22:07:42 UTC 
Plasma is not involved with bluetooth audio in any way (except for initially connecting to the device). Therefore it's highly unlikely that the problem is related to Plasma and must be cause by something else
Comment 2 Nicolas Fella 2023-01-09 22:10:17 UTC 
You can try reporting this to bluez or PulseAudio/PipeWire, but from a Plasma perspective there's nothing we can do for you
Comment 3 Angelo Campos 2023-01-09 22:17:36 UTC 
(In reply to Nicolas Fella from comment #2)
> You can try reporting this to bluez or PulseAudio/PipeWire, but from a
> Plasma perspective there's nothing we can do for you

The reason I thought it was KDE related was because I have another install with my same disto but using gnome and the bluetooth doesn't have the issue but it also using pipewire and the same drivers for bluetooth.