Not all VOIP applications (specially those which use alsa) set media.role to
phone. This means we need some heuristic to determinate if we want to switch
from a2dp to hsp profile based on number and types of source output (recording)
streams.
And also some people want to use their bluetooth headset (with microphone) as
their default recording device but some do not want to because of low quality.
This patch implements optional heuristic which is disabled by default. It is
disabled by default to not break experience of current pulseaudio users because
heuristic cannot be optimal. Heuristic is implemented in module-bluetooth-policy
module and decide if pulseaudio should switch to a hsp profile or not. It checks
if there is some source output with pass all these conditions:
* does not have set media.role
* does not use peak resample method (which is used by desktop volume programs)
* has assigned client/application (non virtual stream)
* does not record from monitor of sink
And if yes it switch to hsp profile.
By default this heuristic is disabled and can be enabled when loading module
module-bluetooth-policy with specifying parameter auto_switch=2
Because it is disabled by default nobody will be affected by this change unless
manually change auto_switch parameter.
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
This fixes a crash that happens if the bluetooth headset is the only
non-monitor source in the system and the last "phone" stream dies.
When the stream dies, the native protocol calls pa_source_output_unlink()
and would call pa_source_output_unref() next, but without this patch,
things happen during the unlinking, and the unreffing ends up being
performed on a stream that is already freed.
pa_source_output_unlink() fires the "unlink" hook before doing anything
else. module-bluetooth-policy then switches the headset profile from HSP
to A2DP within that hook. The HSP source gets removed, and at this point
the dying stream is still connected to it, and needs to be rescued.
Rescuing fails, because there are no other sources in the system, so the
stream gets killed. The native protocol has a kill callback, which again
calls pa_source_output_unlink() and pa_source_output_unref(). This is
the point where the native protocol drops its own reference to the
stream, but another unref call is waiting to be executed once we return
from the original unlink call.
I first tried to avoid the double unreffing by making it safe to do
unlinking recursively, but I found out that there's code that assumes
that once unlink() returns, unlinking has actually occurred (a
reasonable assumption), and at least with my implementation this was not
guaranteed. I now think that we must avoid situations where unlinking
happens recursively. It's just too hairy to deal with. This patch moves
the bluetooth profile switch to happen at a time when the dead stream
isn't any more connected to the source, so it doesn't have to be
rescued or killed.
BugLink: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=97906
Bluez5 uses different profile names as bluez4, so we need to check for
a2dp_sink and headset_head_unit too for bluez5 support.
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
With this patch module-bluetooth-policy automatically switch from a2dp profile
to hsp profile if some VOIP application with media.role=phone wants to start
recording audio.
By default a2dp profile is used for listening music, but for VOIP calls is
needed profile with microphone support (hsp). So this patch will switch to
hsp profile if some application want to use microphone (and specify it in
media.role as "phone). After recording is stopped profile is switched back
to a2dp. So this patch allows to use bluetooth microphone for VOIP applications
with media.role=phone automatically without need of user interaction.
Signed-off-by: Pali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
If 'pa_modargs_new' returns a NULL, we need to be careful to not call
'pa_modargs_free' in the failure path since it requires that we pass it
a non-null argument. Also updates 'module-bluetooth-policy.c:pa__init'
to follow the standard "goto fail" pattern used everywhere else.
Signed-off-by: Jason Gerecke <killertofu@gmail.com>
FSF addresses used in PA sources are no longer valid and rpmlint
generates numerous warnings during packaging because of this.
This patch changes all FSF addresses to FSF web page according to
the GPL how-to: https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-howto.en.html
Done automatically by sed-ing through sources.
This allow 'off' profile to be choosen when no other profile is available
which is considered better since it requires less resources than other
profiles.
This name is more acurate with regards of what role we're currently
playing and we've already been using it in
pa_bluetooth_profile_to_string() since 449d6cb.
When setting attribute foo, or in this case the card profile, in my
opinion the thing passed to the set_foo() function should be of the
type of foo, not a string identifier that can be used to search for
the actual foo in set_foo().
This is mostly a question of taste, but there's at least some small
benefit from passing the actual object: often the profile object is
already available when calling pa_card_set_profile(), so passing the
card name would cause unnecessary searching when pa_card_set_profile()
needs to look up the profile from the hashmap.
Use the card profile availability flag instead of port availability in
order to automatically switch profiles, for example when a paired phone
starts streaming A2DP audio.
Generalize the availability flag in order to be used beyond the scope of
ports.
However, pa_port_availability_t is left unchanged to avoid modifying the
protocol and the client API. This should be replaced by pa_available_t
after a validation phase of this new generic enum type.
Given that headsets have just one single port exposing whether the
audio is streaming (playing) or not, it's not possible that
module-bluetooth-policy would distinguish A2DP/HSP cases, and thus
the automatic selection of the card profile is not deterministic.
For this reason, disable the policy entirely for headsets and focus
only on HFGW and A2DP source profiles.
Handle availability changes in Bluetooth ports inside
module-bluetooth-policy. The implemented behavior is similar to how
module-switch-on-port-available behaves, but the conditions are more
relaxed and thus more profile changes are triggered.
Add support for hfgw card profile in module-bluetooth-policy, just like
a2dp_source is handled.
In this case also the sink needs to be connected using module-loopback.
Instead of focusing on a2dp_source only, prepare the module to support
several profiles. It will be possible to enable/disable each of them
using module arguments.
I know that pa_streq() is defined with an extra parenthesis, but everytime I
look at it, it makes me nervous. :D
So it's better to add the parenthesis here.
This is a basic module for enabling loopback as soon as a new bluetooth A2DP
source is created. The module is given a source and a media role using command
line. This allows module-intended-roles or module-device-manager to choose a
target sink for the stream.
