[pulseaudio-discuss] Bluetooth

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Pablo Yaggi at 23/01/09 01:32 did gyre and gimble:
> Hi,
>         I can't configure pulse audio to use an alsa bluetooth device,
> I think is some kind of timeout getting device capabilities or something 
> like that when module-alsa-source is loading.
>         I have a bluetooth headset correctly configured and working with 
> alsa,
> I can play in a2dpd mode with mplayer, aplay, play, etc. and I can 
> capture and play in voice mode with skype, and the others as well.
>         For that I create a couple of entries in asound.conf with a device
> for using the bluetooth headset in voice profile and another for a2pd 
> profile.
>         When later I try to create a sink for any of them or a source for the 
> device in voice mode pactl fails to load the module.
>         What I notice is that this command:
> pactl load-module module-alsa-sink sink_name=test device=bluetooth
> 
>         waits for about 20 second before it fails and the headset makes the 
> noice it does every time the alsa open it (stablish the bluetooth link)
> 
>         Best Regards
> Pablo
> 
> PD: Server version 0.9.14

Bluetooth support is currently available in pulse directly and it's not 
generally recommended to go via alsa to work with your bluetooth device.

Col

PS I've not used it personally yet and it does still have some limitations.

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