[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH v3 2/2] bluetooth: Add optional heuristic for switching between hsp and a2dp profiles

[Arun Raghavan]

On 5 May 2015 at 18:13, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 May 2015 17:40:28 Arun Raghavan wrote:
>> On 1 November 2014 at 04:20, Pali Rohár <pali.rohar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Not all VOIP applications (specially those which use alsa) set media.role to
>> > phone. This means we need some heuristic to determinate if we want to switch
>> > from a2dp to hsp profile based on number and types of source output (recording)
>> > streams. Some people want to use their bluetooth headset (with microphone) as
>> > their default recording device but some do not want to because of low quality.
>> >
>> > This patch implements some heuristic in module-bluetooth-policy module to decide
>> > if pulseaudio should switch to hsp profile or not. It check if there is some
>> > source output with pass all these conditions:
>> >
>> > * does not have set media.role
>> > * do not use peak resample method (which is used by desktop volume programs)
>> > * has assigned client/application (non virtual stream)
>> > * do not record from monitor of sink
>> >
>> > And if yes it switch to hsp profile.
>> >
>> > By default this heuristic is disabled and can be enabled when loading module
>> > module-bluetooth-policy with specifying parameter switch=2
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar at gmail.com>
>> > ---
>>
>> This patch is a NACK from me. I disagree with the validity of the
>> heuristic, and think that the two workarounds I've mentioned in the
>> original thread (repeated below) are sufficient. I don't want to carry
>> additional code for this corner case.
>>
>
> I disagree. They are not. Otherwise we would not see people complaining
> about non working microphone and autoswitch of bluetooth headsets.
>
> And by default heuristic is disabled, so it does anything on your
> system.
>
>> 1. Patch the app to appropriately set a role, set it via an env.
>> variable if you can't
>>
>
> Already said it is not possible for 3rd closed application and alsa
> applications (which do not use pulseaudio).

And I've already explained why it is.

I stopped replying to the thread because we were going in circles in
this discussion (and now your tone is increasingly belligerent).

Unless there is new information, this stays at a NACK for me.

-- Arun