[Nix-dev] Objections to switching to Bluez5?

[Carles Pagès]

I only started playing with bluetooth the other day and also relied on
bluez5. Perhaps we could open an issue to track making bluez5 the default,
with all that info?


2014-04-11 19:34 GMT+02:00 Kirill Elagin <kirelagin at gmail.com>:

> Speaking about KDE, looks like we need bluedevil >= 2 and it's still RC1.
> From my experience it's pretty stable but probably we should wait…
>
> That's a pity, Bluez4 sucks so much!
>
>
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> Кирилл Елагин
>
>
> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:28 PM, Kirill Elagin <kirelagin at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> I'd like to upgrade to Bluez 5 since I have no idea how to control Bluez
>> 4 from the commandline.
>>
>> The bad news here is that Bluez 5 completely dropped support for
>> microphones (that is, one
>> can user his headset to play music, but not to talk). [1]
>>
>> That's why it would be nice to leave users some choice: Bluez 4 or 5.
>>
>> Also PA 5 is required to have BT audio playback with Bluez 5.
>> It looks like PA 4 -> 5 upgrade should be smooth.
>> I could look into possibility of this upgrade but I'm not sure how to
>> deal with
>> systemd-related stuff in PA expression. It looks like currently
>> PulseAudio is
>> being built without systemd support for some reason.
>>
>>
>>   [1]: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Notes/5.0/
>>
>>
>> --
>> Кирилл Елагин
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>>
>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 9:14 PM, Aristid Breitkreuz <aristidb at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> PA 5 brings Bluez 5 audio, no idea how easy it is to get running.
>>> Am 11.04.2014 18:51 schrieb "Kirill Elagin" <kirelagin at gmail.com>:
>>>
>>> Why? Audio profiles weren't working anyway (at least, for me)…
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>> Кирилл Елагин
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>>>>
>>>> On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 8:42 PM, Aristid Breitkreuz <aristidb at gmail.com
>>>> > wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> This would require a pulseaudio update.
>>>>> Am 11.04.2014 18:40 schrieb "Kirill Elagin" <kirelagin at gmail.com>:
>>>>>
>>>>> Any news on that?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm sure I've been using Bluez 5 with KDE 4.11.5 on my Gentoo laptop
>>>>>> for quite some time.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Кирилл Елагин
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Aristid Breitkreuz <
>>>>>> aristidb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> It appears that KDE does not support Bluez 5 at this point, so this
>>>>>>> appears to be out of the question for now.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 2013/8/27 Aristid Breitkreuz <aristidb at gmail.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'm currently updating packages, so Bluez5 works again. I believe
>>>>>>>> it was not made the default way back when because it did not support Kernel
>>>>>>>> 3.2, right? Well, now 3.4 is default so how about switching NixOS over to
>>>>>>>> Bluez5 (assuming I get it all to work...)?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Aristid
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
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