Re: Raspberry Pi 3 / BCM43438 + HSP profile + PulseAudio

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Hello Attila,


On 20 January 2018 at 08:35, Tőkés Attila <attitokes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I'm trying to use a Bluetooth speaker with Raspberry Pi 3 in HSP mode
> with PulseAudio.
>
> Based on the information I found on the web (blogs / forums / mailing
> list archives), apparently, HSP does not really works with the
> Rasberry Pi's built in BCM43438 chip. I didn't found the exact reason
> yet. Some people suggest it may be a problem with the BCM43438
> firmware or with the kernel driver. A2DP, and HSP with USB Bluetooth
> dongles are reported to be working fine. (The most complete
> description I found about the problem is:
> http://youness.net/raspberry-pi/bluetooth-headset-raspberry-pi-3-ad2p-hsp)
>
> I think it would be useful to get clear picture about the problem. And
> maybe we could try to fix it.

There is an issue on the Raspberry Pi Foundation/Trading GitHub for
their Linux kernel source tree:
https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux/issues/1552


> Does anyone managed to figure out what exactly the problem is?

The trail on issue 1552 goes all the way back to Cypress/Broadcom via
people at Raspberry Pi Trading and has the status of "waiting for
internal comment" so I suspect they will be the people to ping about
this.

>
> I started investigating the issue, but didn't got any result yet. I
> didn't had too much experience with the Linux's Bluetooth stack, so
> some help with the further investigation would be useful.
>
> ----
>
> Bellow are some details of my investigation.
>
> Hardware: Raspberry Pi 3 + JBL GO! Bluetooth speaker
>
> Kernel: raspberrypi 4.14.14-v7
> BlueZ: 5.43
> PulseAudio: 11.1
>
> Summary:
> - BCM43438's driver is sucessfuly loaded, it's firmware is uploaded successfully
> - the Bluetooth speaker gets detected and the pairing / connection works fine
> - PulseAudio detects the speaker as a card
> - both the headset_head_unit and a2dp_sink profiles are shown by
> `pacmd list-cards` and can be set with `pacmd set-card-profile`
> - with the a2dp_sink profile, the audio playback works fine (tested
> with `paplay`)
> - with the headset_head_unit profile, `paplay` gets stuck at start a
> no audio is played (`parecord` does the same)
>
> I started booth BlueZ and PulseAudio in debug mode, but found nothing
> obviuosly wrong (at least for me :P) in the logs. Also did a HCI dump.
>
> Linking the following logs (uploaded to PasteBin; they are too long
> inline them):
> - the Blootoothd's log - https://pastebin.com/WC17Ze0r
> - the PlulseAudio's log - https://pastebin.com/jUjqjuhC
> - the output of the PA commands - https://pastebin.com/wvRzdTEx
> - the output of some BL Tools (sdptool / bluetoothctl / hciconfig) -
> https://pastebin.com/Ax7XYr94
> - the HCI dump -https://pastebin.com/zqhqKu57
>
> SCO dump did not managed to get.
>
> I executed the following steps:
> (the steps are marked in the log files too):
> - start Blootoothd
> - start PulseAudio
> - powered on the Bloothooth speaker
> - tried to play some audio
> $ pacmd list cards
> $ pacmd set-card-profile 1 headset_head_unit
> $ paplay -v -d bluez_sink.78_44_05_4B_4F_FF.headset_head_unit
> /tmp/h2g2.ogg (gets stuck)
> $ pacmd set-card-profile 1 a2dp_sink
> $ paplay -v -d bluez_sink.78_44_05_4B_4F_FF.a2dp_sink /tmp/h2g2.ogg (works)
>
> Thanks,
> Attila
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