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

[Luiz Augusto von Dentz]

Hi,

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 12:19 PM, Arun Raghavan <arun at accosted.net> wrote:
> On 9 February 2015 at 15:44, Georg Chini <georg at chini.tk> wrote:
>> 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?
>
> Since we didn't have a mechanism to answer the phone call, probably
> was manual. Do note that this mode would be useful for more than
> telephony calls (i.e. voip calls too).

Sorry for late response, there is probably no conflict to have both
backends enable right now but as soon as the native backend start
accepting incoming connection for SCO it will not be possible to have
this option anymore and I thought the idea was to complete the native
backend with both AG and HF roles, anyway for HFP the roles does not
restrict who initiate the connections, to be able to do audio
transfer, and I guess we want to complete the AG in ofono anyway.


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Luiz Augusto von Dentz