bluetooth headset [05.05 updated !!!]

flocchini · Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2005 1:40 am Post subject:

it works great

But only xmms plays fine, mplayer sounds choppy with "ao:alsa=hw=1,0"... Any solution? It's possible to play a movie audiostream trough bt?
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Entropy42 · n00b Joined: 05 Mar 2004 Posts: 56

Mben · Posted: Tue Nov 08, 2005 12:20 pm Post subject:

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Mben · Posted: Wed Nov 09, 2005 9:31 pm Post subject:

interesting. i agree about the broadcom but its hard to tell what chip you are working with before you plug it in (i have a broadcom wifi card too). oh well :cry:

. maybe i can get a different dongle for cheap on black friday in a couple weeks

Mirza · n00b Joined: 22 Nov 2005 Posts: 5

Hi,

I just setup my bt-headset to work with xmms, skype, aplay etc on SLACKWARE with kernel 2.6.14.2. xmms sound quality is great, skype might be better.

BT-Headset: Jabra 250v
USB: Built-In IBM ThinkPad X31

After 7-8 meters the quality is getting worse, but it is still OK.

xmms stops playing sometimes after a song and btsco shows this message:

masterbrian · Guru Joined: 13 Feb 2004 Posts: 461

Hi,

I'm having some problem with a fresh install of gentoo. It seems that the btsco-cvs needs libtool 1.5.6, and it is not compatible with the actual 1.5.20 in portage.
BTW, I'm not sure, but there are probably some problem with the 2.6.14 kernels too.

Also, with the split ebuilt, I cannot download bluetooth-alsa-cvs... where I can find this? After many tries my ebuild failed to download... where I can find this?

Thank you
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stip · n00b Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 53

Hi,
I am trying to get a Jabra BT500 working with my laptop (and especially Skype). Followed the instructions on the first page and my headset is connected - according to kbluetoothd. However, I can't hear any sound when playing something with aplay.
All I get is a short beep when the headset is done. I removed USB2.0 now from the kernel (2.6.13-r3) as this solved a similar problem for someone else, but it makes no difference for me. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Output of btsco:

nivw · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 261

tried to emerge the cvs. bluetooth-alsa wnet by fine.
btsco did complite the emerge but there is NO btsco binary :-(

kEiNsTeiN · Guru Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 361 Location: Germany

same problem here. No binary.

nivw · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 261

nachtmann: better get the new ebuild from the address in the first post,
It took me a day , and an email to grasp that the ebuild was changed,
after that it should install fine :-)

(still not tested with my headset, dam libdbus ... should complete emerging soon..)

Niv

kEiNsTeiN · Guru Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 361 Location: Germany

Nivw: Nope, that didnt work. It just removed the "cd" errormessage, which was irrelevant.
I got it fixed by adding "libtoolize --copy --force" above the line "./bootstrap" in the ebuild....

edit: so, I finally got everything set up, but I have the same problem as many in here: I dont get any sound. The log-message say I should get sound, but XMMS doenst show any progress when pressing play, even though it doesnt freeze. I can hear that something happens to my headset, as I get a little crack when I press play. Right now my batteries are emtpy (lol), so I have to wait a little bit until I can try anything else.
BTW: I have a Logitech Mobile Pro Headset, using a Terratec Typhoon dongle, as recommended by the awesome german pc-magazine "c't".

nivw · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 261

I got to the same resault as nachtmann.
I can upload the output which looks similar to the one posted.

I use the Zonet 6100C dongle and a logitech headset
I think we need to post this issue at the bug link in the first post.

I will wait for a day , to see if hothead replays here , and then post in the bug system

hothead · Posted: Mon Jan 02, 2006 12:32 pm Post subject:

Take a look at the readme for the supported headsets:

nivw · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 261

Thanks for the code (I am real keen on software reuse :->

My headset doesnt appear on the list - rather a privios module,
but I think - it does work

kEiNsTeiN · Guru Joined: 29 Apr 2005 Posts: 361 Location: Germany

Is anybody filing a bug or got an idea?

This retarded headset is annoying the crap out of me...
(sorry, but I tried to get it to work for... hours... and it's still not working...very very frustrating)
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nivw · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 261

just to puor positive karma, here is the link to the BlueZ mailing-list which seems to have lots of info regarding bluetooth-alsa :-)

now this current post suggest that this may happen due an unsupported usb dongle
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=1883

So, just for the hell of it , I switched from my zonet 6100c adaptor to a billionton p/n USBBT02-B (1.1 old version)
I managed to find the headset using hcitool scan
btsco ran fine accrodring to dmesg,
but I didnt even got that click in the earpiece :-(

will try it again tommorow

any help would be welcome..

thesnowman · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 11:12 am Post subject:

hothead thanks for the howto.

Can you please remove the fullstop from the link to the bug as it makes the link invalid. Thanks.

Kalin

Well, for those of you that are not CCed on bug #91558 please have a look and thry the new ebuilds.

My full overlay is available at:
rsync://rsync.tar.bz/gentoo-portage-pkalin
(or fetch rsync://rsync.tar.bz/gentoo-portage-pkalin/pkalin.syncsource )

Please comment on the bug or to me personally. Forms are better for other uses.

Kalin · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:19 am Post subject: SourceForge CVS server

As I said in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91558#c26 at the moment, there are problems with the SourceForge CVS server, hope they are fixed soon.

Check this link before you emerge: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/bluetooth-alsa

Kalin.

Tlaloc · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 11:09 am Post subject:

There are no corresponding ebuilds in the overlay you made accessible. :cry:

Many thanks to all contributing to this!

Bye, Val.

nivw · Apprentice Joined: 09 Nov 2005 Posts: 261

emm....

IT WORKS!

sorry, but I put some effort in to see this happen. I finely can hear mp3 in the BT headphone. Thanks A LOT hothead for starting this thread , and Kalin for upgrading the bug.

I think I now need to report that a logitech freedom mobile and Billionton USB dongle V.11 work!

I had to use the same pin at /etc/bluetooth/pin , as my headset, but I think I know how to solve it.

Now , I just recived the BT-mini-hs from the geeks yesterday http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=BT-MINI-HS

it can talk to the cellular like a regulat BT headset , as well as use the audio gateway profile, so I may use it for VoIP , aka. Skype

But It also does high quality audio!
I tested it on windows, and the resault is quite impressive, for a 28$ headset.

thanks again ppl,
Niv

Kalin · Posted: Thu Jan 05, 2006 2:34 pm Post subject: My overlay

Ooops :-)

Sorry, I have forgotten that I need to sync the rsync server to the (internal) subversion repository that I use on all my boxen. Thank you for pointing out. Now works.

stip · n00b Joined: 15 Jul 2003 Posts: 53

Hi!
I'm trying to emerge the new ebuilds.

Kalin · Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 7:00 am Post subject: broken CVS server

The CVS server @ SF is again broken it seems...

If you follow this: http://sourceforge.net/cvs/?group_id=116589
You should be able to do it manaully: