How to connect Bluetooth speaker with mic to Pi Zero W and use it with Google assistant

Question

please could someone help me. I'm trying to connect my Bluetooth speaker with microphone to my Pi Zero W as the Zero W doesn't have a 3.5mm jack. Also after that could someone show me how to set it as the audio input and output for the Google Assistant. Thanks

Answer 1

I found this blog extremely useful http://youness.net/raspberry-pi/bluetooth-headset-raspberry-pi-3-ad2p-hsp . Plus the blogger is happy to give support about his post. Mainly Pulseaudio is required. You would be using the bluetoothctl command to detect your Bluetooth device, to pair and to connect. With Pulseaudio active you would be using pacmd set-default-sink and pacmd set-default-source to make your audio device available for the system, including the Google Assistant sdk.