[pulseaudio-discuss] PulseAudio and Bluetooth

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and CJ van den Berg at 20/04/09 12:04 did gyre and gimble:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 09:26:31PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> If all of this is installed then all that is needed is pairing the
>> headset/headphones and activating it via the Bluetooth applet. PA will then pick
>> up the device automatically. You can use pavucontrol's 'configuration'
>> tab to switch between hsp/hfp and a2dp.
> 
> Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
> 
> The pavucontrol a2dp option was the final detail to get my headset
> working out-of-the-box.  It doesn’t work with pulseaudio with hsp/hfp
> (the device powers off after a couple seconds), but I really don’t want
> that anyway. Now that I‘ve set it to a2dp (in that split second before
> poweroff) I finally have working bluetooth audio with no dirty
> configuration hacks.

You could argue that changing the profile super quick before it turned 
off is a "dirty configuration hack" but at least it should be remembered 
now :)

Col

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