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BlueFightingCat

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From: Helsinki

Registered: 2007-12-22

Posts: 72

Bluetooth Headphones

I'm trying to get my Bluetooth Headphones to work. So far I've successfully managed to connect to my headset.
The headset appears in KMixer.
Also when I got to System Settings>Multimedia>Phonon>Device Preference my headset appears in each of the lists. I've raised my headset up the list to be first preference. However unfortunately when I press the "test" button, the sound comes out of my laptop speakers instead of the headset.
Additionally if I go to "Audio Hardware Setup" and select my headset as the "soundcard" it works fine when I test it. However despite the fact that I press the "apply" button the settings don't seem to "stick". When I come back to the same place after exiting, it has reverted back to my laptop sound card.

Any ideas how I can get this fixed?

BFC

WonderWoofy

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From: Los Gatos, CA

Registered: 2012-05-19

Posts: 8,414

Re: Bluetooth Headphones

I don't use KDE, but I assume you are ultimately using pulsesudio, yeah?

Maybe trying to debug pulseaidio directly might yeild more info.

BlueFightingCat

Member

From: Helsinki

Registered: 2007-12-22

Posts: 72

Re: Bluetooth Headphones

It's weird. Everything seems to be in order. Pulseaudio can see my BT headset and the profile is correctly set:

Name: bluez_card.00_12_3D_00_7A_53
        Driver: module-bluetooth-device.c
        Owner Module: 29
        Properties:
                device.description = "BTH-500"
                device.string = "00:12:3D:00:7A:53"
                device.api = "bluez"
                device.class = "sound"
                device.bus = "bluetooth"
                device.form_factor = "headset"
                bluez.path = "/org/bluez/410/hci0/dev_00_12_3D_00_7A_53"
                bluez.class = "0x240404"
                bluez.name = "BTH-500"
                device.icon_name = "audio-headset-bluetooth"
                device.intended_roles = "phone"
        Profiles:
                hsp: Telephony Duplex (HSP/HFP) (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority. 20)
                a2dp: High Fidelity Playback (A2DP) (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority. 10)
                off: Off (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority. 0)
        Active Profile: a2dp
        Ports:
                bluetooth-output: Bluetooth Output (priority: 2000, latency offset: 0 usec, available)
                        Part of profile(s): hsp, a2dp
                hsp-input: Bluetooth Telephony (HSP/HFP) (priority: 2000, latency offset: 0 usec)
                        Part of profile(s): hsp

I then test is using the following command:

paplay -d bluez_sink.00_23_XX_XX_XX_XX /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav

and I hear the sound perfectly.

So everything seems to be working ok. However I still can't get the sound out of the bluetooth headset. It always goes to the laptop speakers. For some reason I can't seem to route the sounds to come out of my BT headset instead. I'm sure I'm missing something small.........

BlueFightingCat

Member

From: Helsinki

Registered: 2007-12-22

Posts: 72

Re: Bluetooth Headphones

Ok some more succes. I went into kmix and chose the "playback streams". There I right clicked and chose move to "my BT headset". That kind of sorted the problem. However videos in youtube don't seem to work this way.