[pulseaudio-discuss] bluetooth headset audio not supported by ofono

[Georg Chini]

On 09.02.2015 10:55, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> On 9 February 2015 at 14:54, Georg Chini <georg at chini.tk> wrote:
>> On 09.02.2015 10:16, Arun Raghavan wrote:
>>> On 9 February 2015 at 14:29, Georg Chini <georg at chini.tk> wrote:
>>>> On 09.02.2015 09:28, Arun Raghavan wrote:
> [...]
>>> If you mean that we need to do AT command handling, we now already do
>>> a bit of that in PA (we couldn't really agree upon any other place for
>>> that once BlueZ dropped it). Is there much we need to support other
>>> than volume commands?
>>>
>>> Assuming it's not too much more complex than the HSP support, we
>>> should be able to manage that just fine by extending the native
>>> backend.
>>
>> For audio you probably won't need much more. But if you do not
>> support the telephony functions, you are in the same situation as
>> ofono is with the AG role. Here ofono supports the AT commands,
>> but no audio, and what use is a headset without audio?
>> And if you support audio for a phone but not the telephony functions,
>> what is phone audio good for where you can't make or receive a call?
> You can receive a call (you don't need the headset functions to accept
> one), so we've had users using their computer, their Raspberry Pi, or
> other devices for such use cases.
>
Really? Without using ofono? I wonder how this worked. I did already
use ofono with bluez4 and it would not have worked without. Who
sends the AT command to accept the call to the phone? Or do I have
to pick up manually then?