I have very little bluetooth expertize. All I want to do is to occasionally be able to use my computer's speakers and microphone for phone conversations. I don't want to use a bluetooth headset.
All tutorials I can find on the Net are either dated for Ubuntu 12.04 at the very latest, or describe the process of connecting to the bluetooth headset.
I have Ubuntu 14.04 64bit Asus N56VZ notebook with built-in bluetooth device, that works well under Ubuntu.
My phone is Nokia 6310i, and is compatible with bluetooth headsets. I know how to connect this phone to the dedicated headset. I just don't know how to connect it to my notebook for the same purpose.
When I initiate connection from my mobile to the notebook, or initiate connection from my notebook to the mobile or just turn off the bluetooth and the mobile altogether I've got the same, list sources (obtained via pactl list sinks
and pactl list sources
and filtering out all other fields):
Sink #0
Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
Source #0
Name: alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo.monitor
Source #1
Name: alsa_input.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo
I guess one don't "just connect" to the mobile without some extra preparation. The connection connects, and after a second disconnects. I guess I need to make the computer to advertise itself as a headset, otherwise the phone might think it is something different and it doesn't want to deal with it.
This is my /etc/bluetooth/audio.conf
. By manipulating its contents I never saw any effect (and of course I did reboot after each change), so maybe this file is depreciated. Or the effects are too subtle for me to see.
[General]
AutoConnect=true
Enable = Sink,Source,Gateway
[Headset]
HFP=true
MaxConnected=1
FastConnectable=false
[A2DP]
SBCSources=1
MPEG12Sources=0
blueman-services
that can run an audio bluetooth server, like it is supposed to do. But that doesn't and I really don't know if that is a feasible way. There are at least 3 competing programs for bluetooth: bluez, blueman and built-in network manager, that may conflict with each other.pactl list sources
andpactl list sinks
with your phone connected? (If you want to trim the output, all you really need is theName
field)