[dkozel]

I follow a nearly identical flow several times a day to connect bluetooth headphones to my laptop.

- Turn on headphones * Laptop connects immediately and uses the HSP/HFP mode (works!) * Trying to select A2DP appears to work, but no audio will play - Disconnect the headphones using the Bluetooth manager - Reconnect the headphones using the Bluetooth manager - Select A2DP, this now works.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/bluez/+bug/1438510

Separately, many web videos will stop playing and refuse to play when the Bluetooth audio device is selected.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/1589008

[pizza234]

OK, well, this had to be released before or later ;-)

Here you can find a script which automates the connection to bluetooth headphones, executing (in ruby) the steps outlined above, using the bluez commandline tool (including: retry until the connection is established...):

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/8f6058df9a879292bc8dbd3aaf...

As usual, you need to give execution permissions, or pass it to the ruby interpreter. It's designed to executed via terminal, call it from GUI has undefined behavior.