[pulseaudio-discuss] Next pulseaudio release?

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Thu, 2014-09-18 at 15:06 +0200, Georg Chini wrote:
> Hi Tanu,
> 
> >> [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2014/09/msg00172.html
> > I read that thread, and it sounds like you might have a bit too
> > optimistic view of the BlueZ situation. HFP support will require oFono,
> > and I don't know if there are complications with making oFono installed
> > in Debian's default configuration. Will it conflict with ModemManager?
> > oFono also requires a modem to be set up. AFAIK there's some dummy modem
> > implementation that should be sufficient for getting HFP to work. I hope
> > you can enable the dummy modem by default.
> >
> > Also, the oFono code in PulseAudio provides only HFP support, HSP isn't
> > supported. Most headsets support both profiles, so this is perhaps not a
> > huge issue, but see Georg Chini's complaints in the "[PATCH 0/5] Add
> > simple HSP support in new native backend" thread.
> I did not want to complain, just wanted to make sure I understand it right.

I didn't mean it in any negative way. I tend to use the word "complain"
to any report that something doesn't work. I probably should avoid doing
that.

> > Wim Taymans wrote patches for supporting HSP without oFono, but that
> > code is currently mutually exclusive with oFono support (a compile-time
> > option), so PulseAudio can support either HSP or HFP, not both.
> 
> Thanks for clarifying this. BTW, did ever anyone get a headset working
> with the ofono backend? I remember reading that neither HFP nor HSP
> headsets are supported.

I'm pretty sure the Tizen folks have successfully used the ofono backend
for headsets. Personally, I've only tried it once on my own machine, and
I couldn't make it work, but that might have been due to selinux not
liking self-compiled software.

-- 
Tanu