{"id":203,"date":"2018-01-12T00:02:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T00:02:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/?p=203"},"modified":"2018-01-12T00:11:32","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T00:11:32","slug":"connecting-your-jlab-intro-headphones-on-elementary-os","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/2018\/01\/12\/connecting-your-jlab-intro-headphones-on-elementary-os\/","title":{"rendered":"Connecting your JLab Intro headphones on Elementary OS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The JLab Intro headphones are a low-cost pair of Bluetooth headphones. Though not the best, the sound is still decent. Here&#8217;s how to connect the headphones on Elementary OS.<\/p>\n<p>First, put the headphones in discovery mode. To do this, press and hold the on\/off button for about six or seven seconds, until it starts flashing red and blue.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 640px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-203-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/01-headphones-discovery.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/01-headphones-discovery.mp4\">https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/01-headphones-discovery.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>Then use Bluetooth Manager (use <code>apt install blueman<\/code> to install it) to search and select the headphones (they&#8217;ll show up as &#8220;JLab Neon BT&#8221;):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/02-blueman-JLab-Neon-headset.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-206\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/02-blueman-JLab-Neon-headset.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"682\" height=\"471\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/02-blueman-JLab-Neon-headset.png 682w, https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/02-blueman-JLab-Neon-headset-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 682px) 100vw, 682px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Once you select it, click on &#8220;Create a pairing with device&#8221; (click the &#8220;lock&#8221; icon), and Bluetooh Manager will attempt to pair with the headphones.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/03-blueman-JLab-Neon-connect-headset.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-207\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/03-blueman-JLab-Neon-connect-headset.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/03-blueman-JLab-Neon-connect-headset.png 639w, https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/03-blueman-JLab-Neon-connect-headset-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Right-click on the device and select &#8220;Headset&#8221;. This should tell the headphones to act like an audio device.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/04-JLab-Intro-Choose-A2DP.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-214\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/04-JLab-Intro-Choose-A2DP.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1074\" height=\"680\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/04-JLab-Intro-Choose-A2DP.png 1074w, https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/04-JLab-Intro-Choose-A2DP-300x190.png 300w, https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/04-JLab-Intro-Choose-A2DP-768x486.png 768w, https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/04-JLab-Intro-Choose-A2DP-1024x648.png 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1074px) 100vw, 1074px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Go into &#8220;System Settings&#8221; -&gt; &#8220;Sound&#8221; and select &#8220;JLab Neon BT&#8221;. Click on the &#8220;Mode&#8221; dropdown menu and select &#8220;High Fidelity Playback (A2DP Sink)&#8221;. Some sort of sound should be playing through the headphones. You can also adjust the volume through the volume control on the headphones.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 648px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-203-2\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/05-2018-01-11-JLab-Intro-testing-audio-edit2.mp4?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/05-2018-01-11-JLab-Intro-testing-audio-edit2.mp4\">https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/05-2018-01-11-JLab-Intro-testing-audio-edit2.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>After that, you can use the &#8220;Test Sound&#8221; utility to test that the sound is working.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The JLab Intro headphones are a low-cost pair of Bluetooth headphones. Though not the best, the sound is still decent. Here&#8217;s how to connect the headphones on Elementary OS. First, put the headphones in discovery mode. To do this, press and hold the on\/off button for about six or seven seconds, until it starts flashing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[100,105,101,103,102],"class_list":["post-203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-equipment","tag-bluetooth","tag-elementary-os","tag-headphones","tag-jlab","tag-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonsblog.place\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}