Sending Sound to and From a Bluetooth Headset/Earpiece (mono)

[Was_Just19]

www.bluez.org

Release of bluez-4.45
7th July 2009, 09:00 pm by Marcel Holtmann

The previous release had a bug with the udev rules installation. This has been fixed now.

Installed on Mythbuntu Jaunty..  Only difference is that Skype doesn't freeze up and have to be xkill'ed..

Cheers,


CtrlAltDel

That is good ...... you can now look to see how Skype IDs the earpiece .... ?

[Was_Just19]

I have been using   aplay   as a preferred audio CLi player etc so just to show that the problem is not player based I tried    mplayer        with the following results ......

$ mplayer -ao alsa:device=btheadset ~/Desktop/hehe.wav
MPlayer SVN-r28791-4.1.1 (C) 2000-2009 MPlayer Team
mplayer: could not connect to socket
mplayer: No such file or directory
Failed to open LIRC support. You will not be able to use your remote control.

Playing ~/Desktop/hehe.wav.
Audio only file format detected.
==========================================================================
Trying to force audio codec driver family libmad...
Opening audio decoder: [pcm] Uncompressed PCM audio decoder
AUDIO: 8000 Hz, 1 ch, s16le, 128.0 kbit/100.00% (ratio: 16000->16000)
Selected audio codec: [pcm] afm: pcm (Uncompressed PCM)
==========================================================================
[AO_ALSA] alsa-lib: pcm_bluetooth.c:1593:(bluetooth_init) BT_GETCAPABILITIES failed : Input/output error(5)
[AO_ALSA] Playback open error: Input/output error
Failed to initialize audio driver 'alsa:device=btheadset'
Could not open/initialize audio device -> no sound.
Audio: no sound
Video: no video


Exiting... (End of file)

The earpiece just does not seem to respond to any input .......  bummer!

The very same output is generated if the Earpiece is not paired at all!!!