Bludio

A GPUI Bluetooth and audio device manager for Linux.

Install

cargo install --git https://github.com/radther/bludio

Or, with sudo to also install the PolicyKit policy file for privileged Bluetooth operations (restarting bluetooth):

sudo cargo install --git https://github.com/radther/bludio

If sudo cargo fails with "command not found", your cargo is in your user PATH but not root's. Use this instead:

sudo -E env "PATH=$PATH" cargo install --git https://github.com/radther/bludio

PolicyKit

If you installed without root privileges, the PolicyKit policy file was not copied to the system directory automatically. To enable privileged Bluetooth operations, manually copy it:

sudo cp policy/dev.toomosin.bludio.policy /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/

Or re-run the install with sudo:

sudo cargo install --git https://github.com/radther/bludio

System Requirements

Bludio requires the following system services to be running. These are not installed by cargo install:

• BlueZ / bluetoothd — D-Bus Bluetooth daemon (bluer talks to this)
• PulseAudio — Audio backend for device management
• PolicyKit / Polkit — Required for the privileged policy file to function
• GPU with Vulkan support — gpui-unofficial is GPU-accelerated via Vulkan
• X11 or Wayland — Display server (both are supported)

Note on Pairing

Pairing requests are automatically accepted without user confirmation. This works well with devices that don't require authentication — most headphones, keyboards, speakers, etc. Devices that require a PIN or passkey may not pair, though some devices that support PIN entry can choose to skip authentication and pair without verification.

Third-Party Notices

See THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md for dependency and asset license information.