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

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On Sun, Jan 21, 2018 at 12:06 AM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk@xxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 22:39 +0200, Tőkés Attila wrote:
>> Hi Tanu,
>>
>> On Sat, Jan 20, 2018 at 10:06 PM, Tanu Kaskinen <tanuk@xxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Sat, 2018-01-20 at 10:35 +0200, Tőkés Attila 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.
>> > >
>> > > Does anyone managed to figure out what exactly the problem is?
>> > >
>> > > 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)
>> >
>> > HSP playback getting stuck is a fairly common problem (affecting
>> > multiple bluetooth adapters from different vendors). Solutions for the
>> > problem are known for a few adapters, but not this one. The issue is
>> > documented here (the "HSP problem: the bluetooth sink and source are
>> > created, but no audio is being transmitted" section):
>> >
>> > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Bluetooth/#index8h3
>> >
>> > As you can read there, the underlying problem in the known cases is
>> > either that firmware is missing or the SCO audio routing is wrong in
>> > the adapter. Changing the routing requires (at least in the known
>> > cases) a vendor-specific magic command. I don't know how to figure out
>> > the correct command. On one Broadcom chip this does the trick: "hcitool
>> > cmd 0x3F 0x01C 0x01 0x02 0x00 0x01 0x01", but I don't know how likely
>> > that is to work on a different chip.
>>
>> I just sent that HCI command right now and guess what, it worked :).
>> Both paplay an parecord are working fine with the HSP profile now.
>
> Awesome! I'll update the wiki page.

Ok, Thanks! I posted the solution to the two related GitHub issues +
some forums / blog posts, so hope it will reach anyone interested in
this.

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