Some Bluetooth headphones have electronics inside them to support the HSP and HFP Bluetooth profiles. However to use one in Linux for conferencing (using Zoom, Jitsi, etc.) it requires the ofono package installed, in order to use the microphone, otherwise the microphone doesn't work. Thank you.
Additional information: The Bluetooth headphones as described above, will not work *at all* using the HSP/HFP profiles, without the ofono package installed, there is no audio either.
Thank you for this report. Just in case: did you find & install a package? The link you helpfully gave -> .tar.gz files. A quick search revealed relevant looking: https://zambrovski.medium.com/using-bluetooth-headset-on-ubuntu-790ce6eecc2 https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/bluetooth_headset which says "Then install ofono (AUR)" but where do we stand on this? I will check out Rosa & OpenMandriva repos.
CC: (none) => lewyssmith
No, I did not install any of those packages. As is, I wouldn't know how to install a package from .tar.gz. Just an end-user here. It was easier installing rpm and deb packages. :) Past distros I used, all included ofono and the headphones just worked with HSP/HFP, once ofono was installed. I noticed a reference to an ofono-phonesim package, but I never installed that, if if was available. https://pkgs.org/search/?q=ofono and http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=ofono&submit=Search+...&system=&arch= show an rpm package for OpenMandriva.
I found nothing 'ofono' in Rosa, but here I am in OpenMandriva, which does offer it - confirmation of previous comment: "ofono - Open Source Telephony oFono.org is a place to bring developers together around designing an infrastructure for building mobile telephony (GSM/UMTS) applications. oFono includes a high-level D-Bus API for use by telephony applications. oFono also includes a low-level plug-in API for integrating with telephony stacks, cellular modems and storage back-ends." + ofono-devel - Development files for oFono ofono-qt-tests - Tests for ofono-qt telepathy-ofono - ofono telephone services for telepathy > Past distros I used, all included ofono and the headphones just worked > with HSP/HFP, once ofono was installed This looks to be something that matters rather than "would like", so assigning to all packagers without the usual padding.
Severity: enhancement => normalCC: lewyssmith => (none)Assignee: bugsquad => pkg-bugs
+1 for adding ofono
CC: (none) => joelp
package ofono 2.1 now imported on Cauldron.
CC: (none) => geiger.david68210
Closing as fixed!
Resolution: (none) => FIXEDStatus: NEW => RESOLVED