[Bluez-users] How to setup a headset as an audio device? Getting "Device busy" errors

[SA <sa@claborn.net>]

Hello,

My boss has just purchased a "Jawbone" bluetooth headset (cell phone type) 
that he wants to hook up to his computer to use like skype.

I found instructions for old btsco first, and plugz. I saw that btsco was 
outdated but I tried plugz and sbc first.

Then I saw on http://wiki.bluez.org/wiki/HOWTO/AudioDevices the following:

"Note: you will not need bluetooth-alsa, plugz, btsco or the like for audio to 
work. They are obsolete. "

The steps there are listed as

1. Make sure the audio service is installed and enabled 
(file /etc/bluetooth/audio.service should exist)

2. modify your ~/.asoundrc to contain

pcm.bluetooth {
   type bluetooth
   device 00:11:22:33:44:55
}
3. configure your audio application to use the alsa device "bluetooth". See 
Supported Players 
http://wiki.bluez.org/wiki/HOWTO/AudioDevices#SupportedPlayers for some 
examples.
4. start playing :) 

Which is wonderfully simple, but it did not work for me. I also tried it on my 
own computer. Both computers have OpenSuSE 10.3. I used the KDE bluetooth 
manager to pair the devices. It shows up correctly in "hcitool scan"

The correct Bluetooth address is 00:0D:3C:6F:0E:89, so I tried this on both 
computers (for the remainder of this email I will focus on my own computer - 
once I get it working here I can make it work on my boss's laptop too)

Here's my /etc/bluetooth/audio.service:
[Bluetooth Service]
Identifier=audio
Name=Audio service
Description=Bluetooth Audio service


Here's my ~/.asoundrc:
pcm.bluetooth {
   type bluetooth
   device 00:0D:3C:6F:0E:89
}

I have the following bluez packages installed:

bluez-utils-3.18-12
bluez-libs-3.18-5


When I try to configure any of the players as recommended by the page 
http://wiki.bluez.org/wiki/HOWTO/AudioDevices#SupportedPlayers the best 
response I get is "Device Busy" from amarok and Kaffiene (xine engine) like 
this:

"Audio output unavailable; the device is busy.
xine parameters: "

MPlayer, when I try to run the suggested command 
"mplayer -ao alsa:device=bluetooth"
prints out the options/argument list as though I'm using an incorrect command.

I can't configure audacious at all, under Audio the "Current output plugin" 
has no option to select, and all the other preferences are grayed out too.

Can anyone tell me what I need to do to make this work?

Thanks,

	JW

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