[pulseaudio-discuss] oFono/PulseAudio issue: Reject SCO: Agent not registered

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Wed, 2014-01-08 at 09:54 -0500, Ignazio Chiappone wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> my goal is to use the bluetooth HFP to make/receive a call, however I have
> a problem with oFono.
> Actually I'm working on Fedora 20 with blueZ 5.12 and oFono 1.14 .
> 
> When I start ofonod I see this: http://pastebin.com/AsukjcXx .
> 
> Using test script enable-modem, after pair my device with linux, everything
> seems to work fine, on ofonod in debug mode, I see this:
> http://pastebin.com/2GBmZERk .
> 
> Now, using my device I try to make/receive a call, but I see in both cases
> this error:
> 
> Reject SCO: Agent not registered
> Reject SCO: Agent not registered
> Reject SCO: Agent not registered .
> 
> During the last week talking with some developers of blueZ and pulseaudio
> and also writing on the oFono mailing list, I figured out the problem could
> be PA. In fact someone told me that pulseaudio is not fully compatible with
> blueZ5, I mean it doesn't provide a way to register a HandsFree Audio Agent
> to manage the bluetooth HFP communication, so the chain blueZ5 -> oFono ->
> pulseaudio cannot work well!
> 
> I don't understand if that problem is present in all release of pulseaudio
> or if there is some version or patch able to solve my problem. I mean is
> there a unofficial/not stable version of pulseaudio that work well with
> blueZ5 and oFono?

https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73325

Patches exist at various places (at least in João's private repo and in
Tizen's PulseAudio package).

-- 
Tanu