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MX-17.1/MX-18.1 package request: "bluez-alsa" (also known as BlueALSA)
Posted: Sat Aug 03, 2019 5:32 pm
by MX-16_fan
bluez-alsa (
https://github.com/Arkq/bluez-alsa) is a
Bluetooth audio ALSA backend.
From the project's self-description:
This project is a rebirth of a direct integration between BlueZ and ALSA. (...)
The current status quo is, that in order to stream audio from/to a Bluetooth device, one has to install PulseAudio, or use BlueZ < 5. However, BlueZ version 4 is considered to be deprecated (...).
With this application (later named as BlueALSA), one can achieve the same goal as with PulseAudio, but with less dependencies and more bare-metal-like. BlueALSA registers all known Bluetooth audio profiles in BlueZ, so in theory every Bluetooth device (with audio capabilities) can be connected. (...)
(
https://github.com/Arkq/bluez-alsa)
bluez-alsa is available for a couple of distributions, but currently not yet for
MX Linux.
I
would be more than happy to see it in the MX Test Repo, and to test it (cf.
viewtopic.php?p=518985#p518985 for possible test scenario).
Greetings, and thanks a lot in advance for looking into this
, Joe
Re: MX-17.1/MX-18.1 package request: "bluez-alsa" (also known as BlueALSA)
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 3:07 pm
by MX-16_fan
Just noted that
https://github.com/Arkq/bluez-alsa gives a
special hint about how to package this for Debian-based distributions:
Hope that helps.
Greetings, Joe
Re: MX-17.1/MX-18.1 package request: "bluez-alsa" (also known as BlueALSA)
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 4:34 pm
by Stevo
It says there's two suggested ways to configure it during the build...which do you think would fit MX?
$ ../configure --enable-aac --enable-ofono --enable-debug
or if you intend to stream audio from a Linux distribution using PulseAudio (see this issue)
$ ../configure --enable-aac --enable-ofono --enable-debug --disable-payloadcheck
Re: MX-17.1/MX-18.1 package request: "bluez-alsa" (also known as BlueALSA)
Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2019 5:14 pm
by MX-16_fan
@Stevo:
Stevo wrote: Sat Oct 19, 2019 4:34 pm
It says there's two suggested ways to configure it during the build...which do you think would fit MX?
$ ../configure --enable-aac --enable-ofono --enable-debug
or if you intend to stream audio from a Linux distribution using PulseAudio (see this issue)
$ ../configure --enable-aac --enable-ofono --enable-debug --disable-payloadcheck
The
primary use case for this
ALSA backend is being able to "stream audio from/to a Bluetooth device" (
https://github.com/Arkq/bluez-alsa), as you can do "with PulseAudio, but with less dependencies and more bare-metal-like" (l.c.), using
ALSA only.
Hence I'd guess that
the first variant
$ ../configure --enable-aac --enable-ofono --enable-debug
would be most appropriate.
The
second variant, streaming "audio from a Linux distribution using PulseAudio" (
https://github.com/Arkq/bluez-alsa)
appears rather exotic to me, as in that case one could use
PulseAudio and
BlueZ without any real need for
bluez-alsa that I would know of.
Greetings, Joe
Re: MX-17.1/MX-18.1 package request: "bluez-alsa" (also known as BlueALSA)
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 12:10 pm
by MX-16_fan
UPDATE:
@Stevo:
Some
additional information on this topic:
- I noticed that https://pkgs.org/download/bluez-alsa lists a number of Linux distributions where bluez-alsa is available, three of which are current (OpenMandriva Lx 4.0, OpenMandriva Cooker, Slackware 14.2). There's also a debianized binary listed there, as provided by an older Ubuntu version.
- Plus I found instructions regarding installation and usage in the official Arch Linux wiki (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bl ... bluez-alsa).
- The Raspberry people seem to use this package on a regular basis.
Hope that's of some help
!
Greetings, Joe
Re: MX-17.1/MX-18.1 package request: "bluez-alsa" (also known as BlueALSA)
Posted: Tue Nov 19, 2019 12:29 pm
by jeffreyC
It has been 'Debianized' here by the RaspberryPi people:
https://archive.raspberrypi.org/debian/ ... /bluealsa/
Re: MX-17.1/MX-18.1 package request: "bluez-alsa" (also known as BlueALSA)
Posted: Mon Dec 23, 2019 10:33 pm
by MX-16_fan
@jeffreyC:
Thanks for the link!
@Stevo:
Maybe you repo guys
see a chance of providing us with a Christmas present by compiling a test package for
MX-17.1/MX-18.1 ?
Greetings, and thanks in advance for looking into this, Joe
Re: MX-17.1/MX-18.1 package request: "bluez-alsa" (also known as BlueALSA)
Posted: Mon Dec 21, 2020 3:27 pm
by MX-16_fan
@Stevo:
Since another year has passed rapidly, may I kindly ask whether you repo guys
see a chance of providing us with a year 2020 Christmas present by compiling a bluez-alsa test package for
MX-17.1/MX-18.1 this year
?
Greetings, and thanks in advance for looking into this, Joe