Re: Bluetooth audio via pulse doesn't function unless I chant the magic incantations

[Russ Dill <russ.dill@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 6:29 AM, Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 01:14 -0700, Russ Dill wrote:
>> I have ubuntu lucid (its just karmic+2.6.32-rc5) and I can only get
>> pulseaudio to detect my Sony DR-BT50 headset if I send some dbus
>> commands:
>>
>> addr=00:1a:80:67:63:2c
>> hci=$(dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.bluez /
>> org.bluez.Manager.DefaultAdapter | tail -n 1 | cut -f 2 -d '"')
>> dev=$(dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.bluez $hci
>> org.bluez.Adapter.FindDevice string:$addr | tail -n 1 | cut -f 2 -d
>> '"')
>> dbus-send --print-reply --system --dest=org.bluez $dev org.bluez.Audio.Connect
>>
>> Additionally, the device shows up under the gnome bluetooth-properties
>> applet under "Known devices" with the gold star and the keys. The
>> connected plug doesn't appear until I exec the above commands.
>> Clicking the plug without the above commands does nothing.
>
> You're using bluez-gnome (or possibly an old version of
> gnome-bluetooth). Make sure you use the latest version (2.28.3).
>
> Cheers
>

Thank you for the awesomeness.

Next question, I get events from keypresses on the headset via a
/dev/input/eventX file, but how do I do things with those events?