Elisa won't output to Bluetooth headset

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I just got a Bluetooth headset. A HyperX Cloud Jet. I just noticed that Elisa won’t output to the headset. Clementine outputs it just fine.

The headset audio profile defaulted to High Fidelity Playback (A2DP Sink, codec AAC). At that setting VLC also didn’t output to the headset. I changed it to codec SBC, and now VLC works, but Elisa still doesn’t.

KDE’s volume control can’t force Elisa to output to the headset. I click the three-dot menu and select the headset, no change. I go to the Sound panel on System Settings and select the headset on the dropdown menu for Elisa, no change. I hit “Play all audio via this device,” no change. I use pavucontrol, but that couldn’t force it to output through the headset, either.

I’m using Fedora 43, with Plasma on Wayland. Firefox, Chromium, VLC (after the codec change), Clementine, SMPlayer, all those programs output to the headset just fine. Elisa refuses, and nothing appears to be able to force it to.

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Confirmed. Latest ELISA on OpenSUSE Tumbleweed does not allow to switch output channels. The audio selector in KDE ist always fixed to one device, you can not change this. Other applications (e.g. VLC) allow this selection.

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Sounds like a bug. Please report it to

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Can confirm. Elisa plays fine through built-in laptop speakers, but I can’t switch it to play through a BT headset (Sennheiser BT350). Neither switching from system settings, nor the volume control works.

I’m on Fedora 43, rpm-sourced Elisa 25.12.1.

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I am also experiencing the same bluetooth issue. Usually it works after i close and reopen elisa but since yesterday or so it does not work.

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Bug reported at