Edit: This post has be obsolescenced by the second post in this thread so you can skip straight to that.
I decided earlier tonight to have another shot at making my bluetooth headphones work with kubuntu. Well I have gotten much further than on previous attempts, this time I managed to pair the headphones with the laptop by a very round about method (with my headphones in pairing mode I went kbluetooth>configuration>input devices, by adding them as an input device (not exactly sensible given they are headphones) I managed to finally convince kbluetooth to prompt me to pair them, which I did). So I am now halfway there. And then comes the second half...
Now that they are paired the trick seems to be using a package called btsco (Adept description of bluez-btsco: A tool to that provides a way to use a bluetooth headset with Linux. It works well enough now to get voice-quality audio to and from most headsets). So having installed it* and then running
I then, following a guide, tried the code:
btsco -v 00:13:A9
4:2C:37
(that number is the MAC address of my headphones, as reported by both kbluetooth and by 'hcitool scan'). However this generates the following
Does anyone have any idea what the problem is here?
One possibility I've thought of is that it need the pin, however the device is already paired and so this shouldn't be the case. Also there is no option within btsco to do this (looked at btsco --help) so it seems highly unlikely.
Note: had it worked the desired output would look something more like
*: Just in case someone tries using this as a guide I should note that at this point I also installed the packages bluez-hcidump, alsa-tools and alsa-utils however I'm not sure whether these are actually needed. I was just trying everything I could at this point.
I decided earlier tonight to have another shot at making my bluetooth headphones work with kubuntu. Well I have gotten much further than on previous attempts, this time I managed to pair the headphones with the laptop by a very round about method (with my headphones in pairing mode I went kbluetooth>configuration>input devices, by adding them as an input device (not exactly sensible given they are headphones) I managed to finally convince kbluetooth to prompt me to pair them, which I did). So I am now halfway there. And then comes the second half...
Now that they are paired the trick seems to be using a package called btsco (Adept description of bluez-btsco: A tool to that provides a way to use a bluetooth headset with Linux. It works well enough now to get voice-quality audio to and from most headsets). So having installed it* and then running
Code:
sudo modprobe snd-bt-sco
btsco -v 00:13:A9
4:2C:37(that number is the MAC address of my headphones, as reported by both kbluetooth and by 'hcitool scan'). However this generates the following
Code:
marshallbanana@MPU:~$ btsco -v 00:13:A9:D4:2C:37 btsco v0.42 Device is 1:0 Voice setting: 0x0060 Can't connect RFCOMM channel: Connection refused
One possibility I've thought of is that it need the pin, however the device is already paired and so this shouldn't be the case. Also there is no option within btsco to do this (looked at btsco --help) so it seems highly unlikely.
Note: had it worked the desired output would look something more like
Code:
btsco v0.42 Device is 1:0 Voice setting: 0x0060 RFCOMM channel 2 connected Using interface hci0
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