Extracted from btsco-0.42/debian/control:
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btsco - use a bluetooth headset with Linux
This project provides a way to use a bluetooth headset with Linux. We do this
currently by making an alsa kernel driver which uses bluez to reach the
headset. It works well enough now to get voice-quality audio to and from most
headsets.
We have code to make a headset connection (using the btsco daemon) to send
audio through the alsa system and we have separate code to send stereo audio
to the a2dp device using a userspace program (a2play). Only a couple of
headsets can accept stereo audio so try the btsco stuff first.
btsco-source - source code for the btsco kernel module
The btsco module is a alsa kernel driver which uses bluez to reach the
bluetooth headset.
This package provides the source code for the btsco kernel modules.
Kernel source or headers are required to compile these modules.
Extracted from btsco-0.42/debian/changelog:
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btsco (0.42-2) unstable; urgency=low
* Changed maintainers.
* Now uses dpatch.
-- Russell Stuart <russell-debian@NOSPAM> Fri, 28 Jul 2006 10:16:30 +1000
btsco (0.42-1) unstable; urgency=low
* New Upstream release.
-- Russell Stuart <russell-debian@NOSPAM> Wed, 10 May 2006 13:15:29 +1000
btsco-0.42/debian/copyright:
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This package was debianized by Kel Modderman <kelrin@NOSPAM> on
Sun, 13 Nov 2005 10:25:06 +1000.
It was downloaded from http://bluetooth-alsa.sourceforge.net/
Copyright Holders:
* Jonathan Paisley (retired from the project) started it up and wrote much of what we have now
* Niko Berger brought the patches forward to 2.6.7 and 2.6.8
* Lars Grunewaldt [largegreenwood (at) users.sourceforge.net] added some stuff to the userspace daemon and is working on mode change hooks
* Marcel Holtmann has always been the key developer for bluez and has recently jumped in and helped a lot with our project specifically
* Henryk Ploetz donated SBC manipulation code and brings a significant understanding of this codec
* Brad Midgley is doing documentation, A2DP protocols, vendor relations, and project coordination
* Fredrik Tolf has been fixing up daemon/userspace interactions
* Mayank Batra contributed a2recv.c for A2DP sink support
* Victor Shcherbatyuk added fixed-point A2DP encoding including Arm optimizations
* Andreas Beck gave us the script in contrib for skype and is working on automatic mic gain and fixing noise
License:
This package is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
This package is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General
Public License can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL'.
btsco-0.42/README:
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Bluetooth-alsa Project
This project provides a way to use a bluetooth headset with Linux. We
do this currently by making an alsa kernel driver which uses bluez to
reach the headset. It works well enough now to get voice-quality audio
to and from most headsets. We've had success with:
* BlueTrek 1, G2
* Bluetake iPhono BT420 (using either sco or a2dp)
* Canyon CN-BTH1 (must click headset's volume-up button after each
connection)
* Ericsson HBH-60, HBH-35
* Ericsson HBH-PV700 (headset may go silent after a few minutes)
* iTech Clip S (using either sco or a2dp)
* Jabra BT110, BT130, BT200, BT250
* Jabra Mega BT (use -r option to reconnect rfcomm channel whenever
it's lost)
* LevelOne BLH-1000 (occasional noisy connections)
* Logitech HS01 (has a noisy microphone?)
* Logitech Mobile F-0179A, Mobile F-0228A
* Motorola HS801 (volume must be changed from headset?)
* Motorola HS805 (had to uncomment "auth enable" in
/etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf and restart first)
* Motorola HS810/HS850 (may work "better" if you manually specify
the handsfree channel, 8)
* Motorola HT820 (for both sco and stereo; sound crackles a bit)
* Nokia HDW-2, HDW-3, hs-11w
* Plantronics M2500
* Siemens HHB-600
We currently don't have any code to make the connection to an audio
gateway (typically a cellphone). There's a [1]project associated with
asterisk and a [2]standalone app for using a cellphone.
Features
We have code to make a headset connection (using the btsco daemon) to
send audio through the alsa system and we have separate code to send
stereo audio to the a2dp device using a userspace program (a2play).
Only a couple of headsets can accept stereo audio so try the btsco
stuff first.
Build
1. Install or update the required packages:
+ automake-1.7
+ libbluetooth-dev (aka libbluetooth-devel or bluetooth-devel
or bluez-libs)
+ libasound2-dev (aka alsa-devel)
+ a recent (2.6.11.7 or newer) kernel with *integrated* alsa
enabled (it won't work with the "standalone" alsa drivers
that are a separate download from the kernel)
2. Check btsco out from cvs:
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@NOSPAM.net:/cvsroot/bluetooth-alsa login
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@NOSPAM.net:/cvsroot/bluetooth-alsa co btsco
3. Compile:
./bootstrap
./configure
make
make install
make maintainer-clean
4. For SCO (two-way voice quality audio) you need a kernel with the
emu10k1 driver selected (this is one of the drivers that forces
the inclusion of the implementation of "snd_hwdep_new"). Build the
kernel module:
cd kernel
make
make install
depmod -e
make clean
Using SCO audio
1. insert the module (or better, set up the alsa configuration to
load it)
modprobe snd_bt_sco
2. stop the esound controller if it's running via
esdctl stop
3. run
hciconfig hci0 voice 0x0060
4. turn on the headset (you may need to prepare the headset to be
paired the computer, usually by turning on the headset and holding
the on button until it beeps; make sure the headset has not
connected to your cell--this would block the computer's
connection.)
5. run the handler (let it keep running if you run in the foreground)
btsco bdaddress
6. You probably need to enter the passkey if it's the first time
'round
7. send and receive audio from the headset (usually using /dev/dsp1)
or via the alsa device with something like
aplay -B 1000000 -D plughw:Headset sound.wav
Right now the daemon interaction is somewhat limited:
* Put alternating lines of regexes and shell commands in ~/.btscorc
and when something that the headset sends matches these regexes,
the shell command is run (with any back references \0 \1 etc
replaced from the regexp, \s replaced by the link state and \p
replaced by the daemon's pid). This, of course, is primarily
intended to "do stuff" when the headset button(s) are pressed.
* Send SIGHUP to the userspace program to make it re-read the config
file.
* Send SIGUSR1 to the userspace program to make the headset ring.
* Send SIGUSR2 to the userspace program to force a headset
reconnect.
Andreas Beck contributed a .btscorc and skype script for making the
headset button answer an incoming call. It's in our contrib/ dir and
he may have updates [3]here.
Stereo (A2DP) Streaming
A2DP provides a way to send stereo high-quality audio to some of the
newer headsets. On all the headsets I've seen so far, this is one-way
audio, so if you were expecting to get something like a gaming headset
(talking to other players, getting stereo sound back from the game),
you should wait for the next generation of headsets to get 2-way A2DP.
Right now A2DP transmission requires a helper app to bring in audio.
Hopefully we can remove this requirement. From the btsco directory
after a successful make:
mpg123 --au - file.mp3 | ./a2play 00:0D:3C:30:32:AD
Where you replace file.mp3 with a good mp3 file and bdaddr with the
address of your headset. If you have trouble with using a2play, let us
know on the mailing list if this works for you instead:
mpg123 --au - file.mp3 | sbc/sbcenc - | ./sbc/rcplay 00:0D:3C:30:32:AD
-
You can send live audio from line-in etc using a command like:
./a2play -s -d -r 44100 00:0D:3C:30:32:AD /dev/dsp
Don't be surprised to get a delay. It's probably under 500ms but not
much under that.
The A2DP sink code receives a stream from another device. Run it with:
hciconfig hci0 class 0x200404
sdptool add A2SNK
./a2recv
It will try to bind to the bluetooth adapter and send audio out to
/dev/dsp.
Embedded status
The status of work on gumstix/xscale is on its [4]own page.
A2DP userspace plugin
If you want to experiment with the alsa userspace plugin work, go to
the directory 'alsa-plugins' in the cvs archive and have a look at the
BUILD docs there. This lets you have alsa clients such as xmms send
audio directly to an a2dp headset.
Links
* [5]Bug list at sourceforge
* [6]Bluez main page
Discussion
This code is experimental, so the best place to talk about it and
submit changes is on the bluez-devel mailing list.
If things aren't working as you expect, some of the things that can
help us track it down are:
* Whether there is a hub between your computer and bluetooth adapter
(you should avoid this [7]especially if it's a usb 2.0 hub)
* Manufacturer and model of headset and bluetooth adapter
* Output from hciconfig -a
* Output from hciconfig hci0 revision (Run hciconfig as root)
+ If it prints "SCO mapping: HCI" then your adapter should
work.
+ If it prints "SCO mapping: PCM" then you might permanently
change the setting using a command like "pskey mapsco 0"
using bluez-utils-cvs but this is at your own risk.
+ If it doesn't print either of those, you probably need a
different bluetooth adapter (preferably "CSR" based). You
might be able to get a broadcom adapter to work if you apply
a [8]patch to force sco mtu values (eg works for F8T012; let
us know how it works on bluez-devel!)
* Output from hcitool info bdaddr where bdaddr is the headset's
address
* Output from hcidump -X while running btsco or a2play if
appropriate
* The output btsco -v or a2play prints to the screen
* Your kernel version and bluez userland versions or distro
* Result when trying it with a recent kernel if possible (eg 2.6.11)
* If you have a headset that can do a2dp, try both btsco and a2play
(the significance is that the latter does not use SCO)
* If you can try another bluetooth adapter or headset, let us know
if that helps (the adapters are cheap now, eh? :)
* If you can't pair or connect with the headset, did you pair it
with another device? Did it help to reset the pairing by removing
/etc/bluetooth/link_key or
/var/lib/bluetooth/[dongleaddr]/linkkeys or by putting the headset
in pair mode? You may have to redo this often if you try to
dual-boot windows or if you use the same dongle on another
computer. Be sure to set "auth disable" and "encrypt disable" in
/etc/bluetooth/hcid.conf.
Credits
Some instrumental people in this effort:
* [9]Jonathan Paisley (retired from the project) started it up and
wrote much of what we have now
* [10]Niko Berger brought the patches forward to 2.6.7 and 2.6.8
* [11]Lars Grunewaldt (also retired) added some stuff to the
userspace daemon
* [12]Marcel Holtmann has always been the key developer for bluez
and has recently jumped in and helped a lot with our project
specifically
* Henryk Ploetz completed the first SBC codec
* [13]Brad Midgley is doing documentation, A2DP protocols, vendor
relations, and project coordination
* Fredrik Tolf has been fixing up daemon/userspace interactions
* Mayank Batra contributed a2recv.c for A2DP sink support
* Victor Shcherbatyuk added fixed-point A2DP encoding including Arm
optimizations
* Andreas Beck gave us the script in contrib for skype and is
working on automatic mic gain and fixing noise
Our Sponsors
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[15]SourceForge.net Logo
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The [16]bluetooth-alsa project pages
References
1. http://www.crazygreek.co.uk/content/chan_bluetooth
2. http://www.soft.uni-linz.ac.at/_wiki/tiki-index.php?page=ProjectBluezHandsfree
3. http://www.acs.uni-duesseldorf.de/~becka/download/skype/
4. http://bluetooth-alsa.sourceforge.net/embed.html
5. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?group_id=116589&atid=678258
6. http://www.bluez.org/
7. http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=11431438
8. http://bluetooth-alsa.sourceforge.net/sco-mtu.patch
9. http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~jp
10. http://www.gargan.org/
11. http://www.dark-reality.de/
12. http://www.holtmann.org/linux/bluetooth/
13. http://www.xmission.com/~bmidgley/
14. http://www.gumstix.com/
15. http://sourceforge.net/
16. http://sourceforge.net/projects/bluetooth-alsa/
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