[pulseaudio-discuss] [BUG] Using bluez 5.5 & pulseaudio a bluetooth headset cannot be used as a recording device.

[Tanu Kaskinen]

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On Thu, 2013-05-30 at 08:34 +0200, Alexander Winnig wrote:
> Interesting.
> I came from the bluez mailing list, they said, it was a pulseaudio issue.
> My goal is to record audio from the aforementioned bluetooth headset 
> using a raspberry pi that has linux(wheezy) on it, that's all. I 
> proceeded as far as seeing my headset in the gui-part of linux, i think 
> that's x11. It shows as hsp. Even as mono recording source. But neither 
> can I see level changes nor use arecord with it.
> 
> Since I updated to the latest pulseaudio, pa cannot connect with the 
> gui-part anymore, some permission denied issue. But under the cli aplay 
> works, pactl works. But recording still doesn't. BTW aplay plays an 
> audio file in 44100 Hz, which doesn't seem to be the hsp profile of 
> 8000Hz. The headset supports both hsp and ad2p.
> 
> It's not about pulseaudio, it's not about bluez. It's about recording 
> using the headset's mic on linux, whatever route goes there.
> 
> Ideas are appreciated.

Idea: use BlueZ 4, and don't try to use the bluetooth alsa plugin.
PulseAudio has native support for BlueZ, so there's no need to have alsa
in between.

-- 
Tanu