virtual_bt_speaker(8)

virtual_bt_speaker8

Virtual bluetooth speaker

Usage

virtual_bt_speaker [-h]

Overview

virtual_bt_speaker provides bluetooth speaker functionality. It receives connections from bluetooth devices that stream music, and forwards the received stream to the given OSS device. This utility depends on sdpd(8) running in the background.

The following options are available:

-B

Run program in background.

-d devname

OSS device to play the received streams.

-p socketpath

Path to SDP control socket. Default is to use default location.

-i priority

Set real-time priority.

-h

Show usage.

Examples

virtual_bt_speaker -d /dev/dspX

Releases

Unchanged in 3 releases since FreeBSD 15.0-RELEASE.

  1. 15.0–16.0

Authors

virtual_bt_speaker was written by Richard Kralovic [email protected].

From base 16.0-CURRENT-20261027-61c70dc16a79 in FreeBSD 16.0-CURRENT (2026-10-27). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.