Bone-conduction headset

Peter Flynn peter at silmaril.ie
Mon Jul 18 15:12:22 UTC 2022


On 18/07/2022 03:07, Daniel van Vugt wrote:
> After Ubuntu 22.04 was released, the flow of Bluetooth bugs being 
> reported slowed way down, which is encouraging.

Always good :-)

> Also "headphone connects but the microphone doesn't" was a feature of 
> the original Bluetooth spec because it only supported microphone usage 
> in ultra-low quality mode, which may have not been the default mode for 
> that reason. Hence you would have no microphone.
> 
> More modern Bluetooth profiles that support reasonable output quality 
> simultaneously with microphone input were only possible when we reached 
> (approximately):
> 
>   BlueZ >= 5.54 +
>   Kernel >= 5.6 +
>   PulseAudio >= 15.0
> 
> Ubuntu 22.04 is the only currently supported release with all of that.

That is wonderfully useful, thank you very much!

Peter




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