Ubuntu Multimedia :: Automatic Switch Audo Output Control To Bluetooth?
Apr 25, 2010
I'm using a Hama Voiis bluetooth audio device connected to my stereo. Both my girlfriend (running 9.10) and me (10.4) can pair with, connect to and stream audio from whatever application we use to the device. However to do so requires a couple of manual steps which I'd like to optimise.
First it's necessary to manually connect to device, since we both want to stream to this, connecting manually seems the best since I suppose only one can connect at any one time. Once connected it's necessary to select "Output" in "Sound Preferences" in order to use the keyboard or multimedia keys to change the volume. This latter step is a little annoying since it has to be done every time we connect. Does anyone have a solution that automatically makes this change when connecting?
I'm still on UBUNTUO 9.04 atm - I'm getting myself a Logitech USB headset. I plugged it in, and immediately I see this in dmesg
[ 7015.732141] input: Logitech Logitech USB Headset as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.1/usb4/4-2/4-2:1.3/input/input11[ 7015.732234] generic-usb 0003:046D:0A0B.0006: input,hidraw3: USB HID v1.00 Device [Logitech Logitech USB Headset] on usb-0000:00:1a.1-2/input3 [ 7280.088017] usb 1-3: reset high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 3
Which is fantastic. Tested this on all kind of audio and I can hear them fine. So headset is working wonders. Except, everytime I want to switch the output from between the speaker and the headset, I have to go System > Preference > Sound > output tab > click on the switch. Which is fine, but the switching procedure via GUI is very arduous. Is there a way to to do this via the command line, if so I can bind it to a hotkey and therefore with one hotkey I will be able to switch between headset vs my speaker?
In 10.04 when i plugged my HiFi into a USB port audio would automatically switch to play out of it.Now in 10.10 i need to plug my hifi in then go to 'sound preferences'>'output' and select USB codec as my output AND unmute the device.Does anyone know of a way to revert to 10.04 behaviour?
I'm using Mate on Jessie. The problem is that mate-volume-control kinda sucks as an audio control. It doesn't have nearly enough options for a proper volume control program. Pulse is much better for my needs. It or Alsa. Is it possible to remove mate-volume-control, or at least make Pulse the default volume control?
Just switched my laptop from that other operating system to openSUSE11.2. Everything works great except for one odd little bug. Both my speakers and headphones have output, are affected by the volume control and it even detects when I plug in headphones and stops output to the speakers. However the moment I adjust the volume, output to my headphones stops, and my speakers start.
Following is my multimedia information: [URL] ~> rpm -qa '*alsa*' alsa-plugins-pulse-32bit-1.0.21-3.3.x86_64 alsa-plugins-pulse-1.0.21-3.3.x86_64 alsa-plugins-32bit-1.0.21-3.3.x86_64 alsa-1.0.21-3.2.x86_64 alsa-plugins-1.0.21-3.3.x86_64 alsa-utils-1.0.21-3.1.x86_64 alsa-oss-1.0.17-25.2.x86_64 alsa-oss-32bit-1.0.17-25.2.x86_64 .....
- When I connect myself to a wireless network I must give the dhclient command, to obtain a local ip address - The system say me that haven't a bluetooth adapter, and so I can't use bluetooh services (I've try by graphical interface and by console)
These problems began when I've passed to ubuntu 10.04! My Wireless card is: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100
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System itself is installed as English. Although location is Austria.
Whenever i open a window not already opened in the session, like a chatwindow in skype, the keyboard layout is switching to german. I can change it back to US and it stays as long as i open no new window.
For Skype and chats it seems like having already opened a window to this contact is enough for the next opening of window to the same contact.
For me it looks a little bit like the settings are use different keyboard layout for each window and use default layout (how ever this got to be german).
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since using 10.04 I have a big problem with my usb headset (freetalk everyman)
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2. Problem: The X server is freezing iregulary when I connect the headset and disconnect it, Magic SysRq works. I checked Xorg.0.log and found out that it recognizes the usb headset as keyboard:
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This is what happens when I try to connect: root|/home/john # hcitool scan Scanning ... 00:23:D7:DE:8D:DFGravity 00:0D:FD:2A:BB:42Motorola S9-HD root|/home/john # hcitool cc 00:0D:FD:2A:BB:42 Can't create connection: Input/output error
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