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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by 12ian34 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @05:53AM (#27035689)

Interesting that the HFP is usable for you. When I've tried to get it working on Linux using blueman, pavucontrol and pulseaudio-bluetooth, switching to HFP is so terrible that I default back to the trusty 3.5mm TRRS jack for calls.

I haven't personally tried it on a MacBook but I do know that colleagues seem to use their bluetooth headphones just fine with no clear quality drop.

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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by Oddskar on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:17AM (#27035839)

This is due to PulseAudio not having proper support for decent quality HFP/HSP. There was a PR to PulseAudio for this exact thing that seemed to have been completely stranded: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/merge...

Edit: actually there might have been some movement on this after all? Some comments in that ticket seem to indicate that this has been improved on master.

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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by 12ian34 on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @07:08AM (#27036240)

Thanks for linking this, I hadn't come across this before. You're right there does seem to be some very recent progress. I'll have a go with what's in the master branch there.

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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by rombert on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @11:07AM (#27038406)

The latest development version (unreleased) of Pulse Audio has great support for HFP with WBS/mSBC.

I've been using it for weeks (months?) with great results.

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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by Oddskar on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @01:24PM (#27040041)

Wow, wonderful news. Thanks!

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Re:Show HN: Control your Bose headphones from your Mac's men... by rkangel on Tuesday May 04, 2021 @06:02AM (#27035741)

Yes - I get the same (good) performance as Windows on multiple Linux machines. I'm running Fedora which may help, but I had to do no fiddling - just worked 'out of the box'.

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