[Bluez-devel] Use SCO links to a phone

[Bluez-devel] Use SCO links to a phone

[Berend Dekens]

Hi everyone,

Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree here but I'm trying to link my phone
with my pc (trying to build a carpc so the computer will act as a 
carkit) and I found some old tool somewhere that generates a handfree
connection, but its old and broken. Then I found alsa-bluetooth and gave
that a whirl.

Even though that project seems to ride in the right direction (at least
there is talk about SCO -voice- connections) I can't figure out what I
should use and how to set it up. The main problem besides having to set
up the SCO link, is that I need access to the rfcomm part of channel 3
(HF) as well because I need to parse status data, be able to answer
calls and initiate them.

I've googled my ass off but it looks like I'm one of the few people on
the planet who are trying to figure this out: SCO support is in the
kernel but I can't find a single guide (not one!) that actually seems to
do something with the SCO module...

It could ofcourse be that I don't need the alsa-bluetooth stuff at all
but after spending roughly 140 hours of reading and experimenting I'm
throwing in the towel...

Cheers,
Berend Dekens

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Re: [Bluez-devel] Use SCO links to a phone

[Brad Midgley]

Berend

I'm not sure if there's code out there yet but selfone is a modern
attempt on maemo. I really should put together a list of headset apps on
bluetooth-alsa since this is a faq. Let me know if you find anything
that is worth mentioning.

Brad

> Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree here but I'm trying to link my phone
> with my pc (trying to build a carpc so the computer will act as a 
> carkit) and I found some old tool somewhere that generates a handfree
> connection, but its old and broken. Then I found alsa-bluetooth and gave
> that a whirl.
> 
> Even though that project seems to ride in the right direction (at least
> there is talk about SCO -voice- connections) I can't figure out what I
> should use and how to set it up. The main problem besides having to set
> up the SCO link, is that I need access to the rfcomm part of channel 3
> (HF) as well because I need to parse status data, be able to answer
> calls and initiate them.
> 
> I've googled my ass off but it looks like I'm one of the few people on
> the planet who are trying to figure this out: SCO support is in the
> kernel but I can't find a single guide (not one!) that actually seems to
> do something with the SCO module...
> 
> It could ofcourse be that I don't need the alsa-bluetooth stuff at all
> but after spending roughly 140 hours of reading and experimenting I'm
> throwing in the towel...
> 
> Cheers,
> Berend Dekens
> 
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Re: [Bluez-devel] Use SCO links to a phone

[David Stark]

On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 23:31 +0000, Berend Dekens wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree here but I'm trying to link my phone
> with my pc (trying to build a carpc so the computer will act as a 
> carkit) and I found some old tool somewhere that generates a handfree
> connection, but its old and broken. Then I found alsa-bluetooth and gave
> that a whirl.
> 
> Even though that project seems to ride in the right direction (at least
> there is talk about SCO -voice- connections) I can't figure out what I
> should use and how to set it up. The main problem besides having to set
> up the SCO link, is that I need access to the rfcomm part of channel 3
> (HF) as well because I need to parse status data, be able to answer
> calls and initiate them.
> 
> I've googled my ass off but it looks like I'm one of the few people on
> the planet who are trying to figure this out: SCO support is in the
> kernel but I can't find a single guide (not one!) that actually seems to
> do something with the SCO module...
> 
> It could ofcourse be that I don't need the alsa-bluetooth stuff at all
> but after spending roughly 140 hours of reading and experimenting I'm
> throwing in the towel...
> 
> Cheers,
> Berend Dekens

Hi.

I may be barking down the wrong tree, so to speak, but I think all the
functionality you need is present in gammu, and whenever I've used gammu
over rfcomm, it's been fine on channel 1.

Dave


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Re: [Bluez-devel] Use SCO links to a phone

[Brad Midgley]

David

> I may be barking down the wrong tree, so to speak, but I think all the
> functionality you need is present in gammu, and whenever I've used gammu
> over rfcomm, it's been fine on channel 1.

fwiw, the spec says to use sdp and look up the gateway service to
determine the channel number. the old btsco does something similar when
finding the headset service.

brad

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