My bluetooth apeaker is connected, recognised, the play pause button works, but no audio

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Hi, awesome community, can you help me troubleshoot this situation:

I got a Bluetooth speaker that works good with my phone, my wife’s phone and used to connect and work with my plasma. Lately (probably after an update, but I can’t be sure) it just doesn’t create an audio port to be able to pass sound to it.

I got pipewire on my laptop, and it works generally good, even with stuff like easy effects (while it’s pulse audio equivalent, pulse effects, used to make a lot of troubles when I was using pa). When I turn on the speaker, it connects normally, it’s being recognized as an audio device, but the audio applet doesn’t show it as an option.
When I press the “play pause” button on the speaker, it does in fact pause and resume the current media.

Here’s my information:

KDE

Operating System: KDE neon 6.0
KDE Plasma Version: 6.1.3
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.4.0
Qt Version: 6.7.2
Kernel Version: 6.5.0-45-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-3632QM CPU @ 2.20GHz
Memory: 15.5 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® HD Graphics 4000
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: Inspiron 7520
System Version: A13

(The Audio configuration from the info center is too big to fit into this message, but if it’s relevant, I’ll paste it in a new one)
Thank you!

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The 6.5 kernel has been a little flaky with Bluetooth. Have you not received the update to kernel 6.8? That seems to have solved the Bluetooth issue I was having.

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Using KDE Neon as daily OS. BT audio is Working OOB here with latest KDE-Neon build and “standard” BT audio devices (speakers, headsets, …) on laptops tablet PC and desktops (Intel and AMD). Not yet tested with APT codec, mouses and keyboards though. But I don’t have sufficient background to talk about BT historical problems on KDE Neon.