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Public Broadcast Profile (PBP) Test Suite, revision PBP.TS.p3

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  • Bluetooth SIG Audio, Telephony, and Automotive Working Group
  • Bluetooth SIG

Standards body (Bluetooth SIG, an industry association funded by its member companies, which owns the Auracast trademark)

Summary

A published PBP test suite checks broadcast announcements, stream configurations and reception behavior; its test strategy explicitly allows simulated stream contents without encoded audio.

Key findings

  • Section 3.2 describes tests of PBP functionality in Bluetooth hosts, matched to the implementation’s declared features, to support interoperability between hosts on different devices.
  • The test setup uses a peer test device over the air and an upper tester to stimulate or inspect the implementation. Stream contents can be simulated and need not contain encoded audio (page 8).
  • Sections 4.2 and 4.3 test programme metadata, Standard Quality and High Quality broadcast configurations, encryption indicators, the broadcast name and whether the associated broadcast group has the stated configuration.
  • Section 4.4 tests whether sinks receive announcements and names and synchronize to streams; assistant tests check reception of announcements and names. Invalid-behavior tests check handling of reserved bits.
  • Section 5 maps test cases to the supported features and roles in the implementation’s feature statement. This is not a requirement that every device implement every PBP role.
  • The listed PBP pass criteria do not measure a venue’s occupied coverage, microphone-to-ear latency or delivered sound level. This suite is only one part of Bluetooth qualification; it does not describe every underlying radio, codec or profile test.

Limits

Revision p3, dated 8 October 2024 and published for TCRL.2024-2-addition, is a dated example of test scope. The current specification landing page’s download endpoint was blocked and its Wayback lookup had no usable copy; this record does not establish which suite revision a later product used. The full 20-page PDF was extracted; pages 7–19 were read and page 8 visually checked.

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Bluetooth SIG Audio, Telephony, and Automotive Working Group. Public Broadcast Profile (PBP) Test Suite, revision PBP.TS.p3. Bluetooth SIG. 8 October 2024. https://files.bluetooth.com/wp-content/uploads/dlm_uploads/2024/10/PBP.TS_.p3-1.pdf (accessed 13 October 2026).

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