On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 14:13 +0200, Robert Munteanu wrote:
Salut, Alin,
On Thu, 2020-06-18 at 11:52 +0000, Alin Marin Elena wrote:
Hi,
I am on tumbleweed and I try to connect a pair of bt headphones. they connect fine and even if they are correctly detected i seem to have available only the output profile... I have another pair of bt different make and that one works correctly both profiles are enabled. Now I try to understand if this is something missing in pulse (config or patch) or simply these headphones are not supported as input devices.
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Bluetooth headphones support is unfortunately lacking in pulse audio and, AFAIU, the kernel as well.
There is a merge request that works towards improving this
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge_requests/288
but it does not seem like it's going to be merged soon. I am running a slightly older version of that code together with the hsphpfd daemon mentioned in the above MR.
I've linked the needed projects at [1], but unfortunately the pulseaudio one is broken and needs resolving.
Hope that helps, Robert
This general statement needs more backing / explanation. Both HSP and A2DP have been working for me in different openSUSE systems, albeit unreliably (from a user perspective, without deep insight into either bluetooth or pulseaudio, support has actually deteriorated over the last years and is currently better in Leap than in TW). AFAICS, only HFP is generally lacking support.
[1]: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/home:robert_munteanu:pulse-bluetooth
Thanks for this effort, I'm going to try it as soon as I can.
Martin
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