
Get a free Pi Zero W with a 12-month subscription to The MagPi magazine. You should be able to follow this Bluetooth audio tutorial with any Bluetooth-enabled Raspberry Pi.Īnd Bluetooth can easily be added to an older Raspberry Pi using a dongle, like this Nano USB to Bluetooth Dongle V2.0. This enables you to play music wirelessly from your Raspberry Pi, turning it into an effective media centre.


In this tutorial we’ll take a look at hooking up a Raspberry Pi to a Bluetooth speaker. The new Raspberry Pi 3B+ even moves from Bluetooth 4.1 to 4.2, which brings faster and more reliable over-the-air data transmission.

You can use it to connect Bluetooth keyboards, mice, and other accessories: like speakers and headphones. Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard, and it has been a feature on the Raspberry Pi since the Raspberry Pi 3 and Pi Zero W.
