Thread: PW4 Using bluetooth to listen to non-amazon audiobook
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Old 04-07-2020, 04:33 PM   #9
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I had yet another thought and it might provide the missing support.

I recently purchased a Raspberry Pi zero W and am using it with my audio/visual system to overcome the limitations of my "Smart" HDTV and my "Smart" Blu-Ray player. The 0w uses a derivative of Debian Buster and uname -a shows:

Linux raspberrypi 4.19.97+ #1294 Thu Jan 30 13:10:54 GMT 2020 armv6l GNU/Linux

My pw4 shows:

Linux kindle 4.1.15-lab126 #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 27 03:27:44 PST 2018 armv7l GNU/Linux

Both systems are ARM processors. Both provide ALSA and neither provide pulseaudio. The repositories for the RPi include the missing Bluez packages. This suggested to me that I might find what I need in the Debian repositories.

As it happens this linux kernel coresponds to Debian Stretch and the Bluez packages are indeed there. Would these be compatible with the pw4? How can I install them if they are?

Dave
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