Edward wrote: > All of the Bluetooth headphones I have, include microphones. Only two > models (Inland 87099 and Creative) have the electronics to support the > HSP/HFP profile. > > My intent was to use the headphone mic in one of these for online > meetings (Zoom, Jitsi, etc.), but under Debian, this isn't working with > the installed software. pulseaudio-module-bluetooth is installed, as is > ofono, blueman, bluez-tools, bluez, bluez-obexd and libbluetooth3. > > This exact same setup worked when I had TDE/PCLinuxOS installed with the > same packages as above (the libbluetooth package might have been named > differently). > > Under PCLOS, I used the PC's on-board audio at the time. I do not know > if the new PCI-E sound card I have now, has anything to do with this > issue, even though the card's /Front Microphone (unplugged)/ entry shows > activity in the PA volume control, until I mute it. > > With either the Inland or Creative headphones connected on the HSP/HFP > profile: no mic, no audio in the headphones, no audio from the PC > speakers. Changing profile to A2DP resumes the audio from the > headphones, the headphone mics never worked under A2DP. > > pacmd list-sink-inputs lists one input, the headphones. > list-source-outputs indicated 0 (zero) source outputs available. Yes, I'm also pissed with that - it (I mean pulseaudio, systemd, udev, bluetoothd and whatever else) does what it wants - it seems totally out of control, although the "experts" have very good intentions. What I am wondering is if the BT, PA, Systemd and udev versions on PCLOS and on the Debian are the same ... hmm you can add Ofono to this gang. When I was testing the phone - it was also working sometime and sometime not, but the phone is another offspring of this gang as itself is running Sailfish OS with the gang running on it. This bluez5 is another KDE4 like story - they enforced it to us while it was not working at all. Now things are getting slowly better, but still it is not OK - why, because the software tries to take a decision on the desired configuration - decision that is hidden from you. What I've been doing is reading documentation and trying to change configuration - finally I gave it up - I do not have the time and I use BT only to sync my PIM data from the phone to the PC. But I'm pissed that the phone stopped working with the car, while with bluez4 it still works perfectly well. Anyway - for you the only way is to try manually hack this (probably in bluetoothctl and pacmd) but chances are good to find answer somewhere on the net, because you are not alone with that. ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
