[pulseaudio-discuss] I don't understand how to use bluetooth headsets

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Arthur Pemberton at 18/01/10 09:03 did gyre and gimble:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 2:18 AM, Arthur Pemberton <pemboa at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Between the PulseAudio Volume Control and Skype, I am not sure how to
>> use my bluetooth headset.
> 
> I've since been able to figure out the problem with help from #pulseaudio.
> 
> The main "fix" was switching the streams.
> 
> Also, it may or may not have been necessary to uncheck "allow skype to
> automatically adjust my mixer levels" in Skype. My attempts pre
> #pulseaudio had this box checked.

In the current beta you definitely need this box unticked.

I blogged about this a while back and have been trying to help the Skype
devs get their PA support working nicely. Sadly due to a deadline we
couldn't fix the problem with AGC for their final release so it will not
work with PA for this release but I believe the box will be disabled for
the PA backend, so you wont have to do anything manually come final release.

Also, as Skype calls are (or will be) tagged as "phone", when you turn
on your Bluetooth headset mid call, it will automcatially switch the
Skype streams to your headset for you via the module-intended-roles
module that is loaded by default.

http://colin.guthr.ie/2009/08/skype-pulse-goodness/

Col

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