owntone-server/README_PULSE.md

forked-daapd and Pulseaudio

Setting up Pulseaudio

If you see a "Connection refused" error when starting forked-daapd, then you will probably need to setup Pulseaudio to run in system mode. This means that the Pulseaudio daemon will be started during boot and be available to all users.

How to start Pulseaudio depends on your distribution, but in many cases you will need to add a pulseaudio.service file to /etc/systemd/system with the following content:

[TBD]

After you have added the file you can check it is running with "systemctl pulseaudio status".

Setting up forked-daapd:

Add the forked-daapd user to the pulse-access group:

adduser daapd pulse-access

Bluetooth

[TBD]

(this page is work in progress)