Skype over bluetooth? (yes, I have googled!)

[Dotan Cohen]

2008/10/15 H.S. <hs.samix at gmail.com>:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
>
>>
>> Bluetooth is a wireless technology, there is nothing to plug in. After
>
> Ah! Okay. For some reason I was thinking of a bluetooth dongle.
> Nevertheless, the system should log if it detects any of such devices.
> It should say something in /var/log/syslog. Correct me if I am wrong though.
>

Does not seem so.

>> playing with the instructions on this thread on the ubuntu forums:
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4910397
>>
>> I can now _hear_ Skype over the headset. However, I cannot use the
>> microphone. Running arecord on the bluetooth connection returns no
>> voice, and Skype complains "problem with audio capture". This is the
>> console output:
>> ALSA lib control.c:909:(snd_ctl_open_noupdate) Invalid CTL bluetooth
>> ALSA lib pcm_bluetooth.c:632:(bluetooth_a2dp_hw_params)
>> BT_SETCONFIGURATION failed : Input/output error(5)
>
>
> Have you checked what device is configured in Skype as input (it should
> have that bluetooth mic)?

I can choose the bluetooth headset from among a list, in fact there
are three entries for bluetooth, but one of them is obviously the one
that I added from the Ubuntu Forums thread. It is this one that works
for sound out, but none of them work for sound in (mic).

> Once your bluetooth is active, what is the
> output of 'aplay -l' command in a terminal?
>

hardy2 at hardy2-laptop:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: STAC92xx Analog [STAC92xx Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 1: STAC92xx Digital [STAC92xx Digital]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Headset [BT Headset], device 0: Bluetooth SCO PCM [BT SCO PCM]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

In fact, I can play wav files with aplay over the bluetooth headset.
However, I cannot record sound with arecord.

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Dotan Cohen

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