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Dienstag, 15. März 2011

Using your phone from your computer via BT-HFP

When I'm at work I'm using a bluetooth headset with my android phone and a cable headset with my computer in order to listen to music or use skype. Sudenly it got on my nerves that I had to switch headsets all the time and I thought there must be a way to make and take calls with my mobile from my computer, so I can use the computer headset all the time.

After some research I found the 'HFP for Linux' project.

The receipe

  1. Check out the sources:
    svn co https://nohands.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/nohands/trunk
  2. cd into the source directory, then compile and install the software. I had to install the packages automake, libtool, libbluetooth-dev, libasound2-dev and libspeexdsp-dev before.
    ./autogen.sh
    ./configure
    make

    sudo make install
  3. Make phone bluetooth discoverable. Somewhere in your phone's settings 
  4. search devices
  5. Configure audio to OSS /dev/dsp

- launcher use /usr/local/share/hfconsole/icon.png