[pulseaudio-discuss] Issues with HSP profile on Bluetooth Headset

[Georg Chini]

On 26.03.2016 11:19, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-03-26 at 11:31 +0200, Jerome Leclanche wrote:
>> Hi list
>>
>> I've been debugging all morning issues with the Parrot ZIK 3.0 (and
>> its two previous model versions) not displaying HSP profile as
>> available.
>>


>> Here's a bug report on the topic:
>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93898
>>
>> The bug report shows information about two devices, and now I noticed
>> something that I hadn't noticed earlier: the working device supports
>> both HSP and HFP, but the non-working device only supports HFP. The
>> "native" backend in pulseaudio only supports HSP, so this explains why
>> some headsets don't work. The assumption has been that all headsets
>> would support both profiles anyway, but if there are headsets that
>> don't have HSP, then it seems that we still don't support all headsets
>> with BlueZ 5 (BlueZ 4 should still work fine, but nobody is using it
>> anymore). The oFono backend is of no use for headset support, because
>> it only supports the role where PulseAudio runs on the handsfree
>> device, meaning that you can connect your laptop to your phone and
>> pretend that the laptop is a headset.
This might be different now. I have seen a few patches on the
ofono side concerning headset support, so it may work meanwhile.

>>
>> I don't know when this will be fixed. I'm not volunteering to implement
>> the missing functionality.
>>
Wasn't there a discussion that pulseaudio should only support HSP
and HFP should be covered by ofono?