Re: [Ekiga-list] Selecting audio devices with Pulse Audio

[Steve Hill <steve nexusuk org>]

On 21/09/11 13:50, Jānis Rukšāns wrote:

> When you're in a call, move the stream to the headset. Now PA should
> remember the association for further calls - works for me with a USB
> headset on Fedora 10. I'm not sure whether the PA will keep the config
> after the pairing is removed though.

Thank you very much, I hadn't realised Pulse remembered associations 
like that.  It mostly works, but:

1. Very unreliable when using the gnome sound settings applet.  The 
input stream seems to end up on the bluetooth headset, but the output 
stream usually seems to end up on the internal sound card (may be 
related to (2) below).

2. Setting the streams in pavucontrol works, but it is unable to tell 
the difference between the stream opened for the ringer and the stream 
opened to output the call media, so if you tell it to route to the 
headset, the ringer goes there too.

3. Occasionally, when Ekiga opens the microphone device it just gets 
whitenoise from the headset.  I guess this is probably not an Ekiga 
problem, and frankly could well be a problem with my ancient headset (if 
anyone has any recommendations for a Bluetooth headset that can be 
simultaneously paired to at least 3 phones, please let me know!)

On the whole, Pulse Audio seems to be quite smart with routing.  If the 
headset is disconnected and I make a call, it uses the internal audio. 
However, if I press the button on the headset while a call is in 
progress, PA spots the new device, remembers that Ekiga should be going 
to it and spontaneously reroutes to the headset on the fly. :)

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 - Steve