Last updated on 2021-05-31
The [Alsa-Bluetooth project]( http://sourceforge.net/projects/bluetooth-alsa/) project provides a way to use a bluetooth headset with Linux.They do this currently by making an alsa kernel driver which uses bluez to reach the headset.
I Wrote a [KDE](http://kde.org/) based user space daemon wich works as drop in replacement for the btsco daemon from the [Alsa-Bluetooth]( http://sourceforge.net/projects/bluetooth-alsa/) package. The Programm is in early beta stage. Just start it from the Console and you will have a small kicker applet in your Systray. **KBtsco** has a function to discover the BAddr of your Headset. Once you did the pairing via e.g. [KBluetoothd](ttp://kde-bluetooth.sourceforge.net/) package, you can click the headset icon in the Systray to connect to the headset. All actions get visualized via On-Screen-Display in the right corner of your monitor. After connecting you can push your connect button on the headset wich actually opens the sco socket. I used this tool on daily basis with [Skype](http://www.skype.com/). Sometimes snd_bt_sco seems to crash and eats all CPU time,it’s still beta i think.
[Picture 1](http://optixx.org/images/kbtsco/kbtsco01.png)
[Picture 2](http://optixx.org/images/kbtsco/kbtsco02.png)
[Download](http://optixx.org/download/kbtsco-0.1.tar.gz)
Hello, good job, KBtsco found my (paired) headset, but…
i can’t connect to the headset, what’s wrong
KBtsco: KBtscoWorker::run cmd=1
KBtsco: KBtscoWorker::btscoOpen
KBtsco: KBtscoWorker::findDevice hwdep next device (hw:0): Operation not permitted
KBtsco: KBtscoWorker::findDevice control open (hw:1): Permission denied
Can’t find device. Bail: Permission denied
KBtsco: KBtscoWorker::run no cmd going to sleep
anyway this program is a very good idea for a simplier life.
I this call fails.
err = snd_ctl_open(ctl_handle, card_id, 0))
This is something ALSA related. Iam not an ALSA Expert, but i would suggest to test this.
o Is the snd_bt_sco module loaded
hunter david # lsmod | grep snd_bt_sco
o Have a correct Alsa setup for it.
o Does Alsa subsystem init the card ?
hunter david # cat /proc/asound/cards
0 [ICH6 ]: ICH4 – Intel ICH6
Intel ICH6 with AD1986 at 0xdffffe00, irq 23
1 [Headset ]: Bluetooth SCO – BT Headset
BT Headset 1
o Is There a Sound device for the BTsco card ?
o Do the Sound Device have prober Permission ?
o Does Alsamixer work on the BTsco card.
david@hunter ~ $ alsamixer -c 1
@sirkus: You need to compile the emu10k1 module into the kernel. Then you don’t have the hwdep problem anymore.
But I’ve also a problem: the kbtsco doesn’t use the right rfcomm channel. It selects “/x01” as channel. That’s the output on the console. I’m using a Jabra BT250v headset.
DO you have any hints?
Thanks a lot for your help (and of course your program),
Whoopie
DO you run the SDP server? If not the KBtscoWorker::detectChannel(bdaddr_t * bdaddr) will fail and the default channel 1 is taken. If this isn’t suitable for you, just change the default channel in this method.