Bug 422221 - Bluetooth audio profile is not selectable
Summary: Bluetooth audio profile is not selectable
Status: RESOLVED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Bluedevil
Classification: Unmaintained
Component: general (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 5.18.5
Platform: Kubuntu Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: David Rosca
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Depends on:
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Reported: 2020-05-29 11:20 UTC by Juho
Modified: 2020-06-02 10:44 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Image what kind of selector I mean (374.56 KB, image/png)
2020-05-29 11:20 UTC, Juho
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Description Juho 2020-05-29 11:20:32 UTC
Created attachment 128902 [details]
Image what kind of selector I mean

SUMMARY
Bluetooth headphones audio profile (HFP or A2DP sink) is not selectable in the KDE Bluetooth devices manager. Manager needs a selector like shown in the screenshot.

OBSERVED RESULT
Profile gets automatically selected.

EXPECTED RESULT
Popup to the user how one wants to connect headphones.

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
OS: Kubuntu 20.04 64-bit
KDE Plasma Version: 5.18.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.68.0
Qt Version: 5.12.8
Kernel: 5.4.0-31-generic
Comment 1 Kai Uwe Broulik 2020-05-29 13:22:48 UTC
Have you checked audio settings? On the Advanced tab you can choose device profiles.

I wonder if there's a way to make this easier or maybe we should show a hint somewhere "your audio quality may be degraded because.."

What application is this in the screenshot, so I could take a look at what they do to offer this.
Comment 2 Nate Graham 2020-05-29 13:41:59 UTC
System Settings > Audio > Advanced > Profile should do what you want.

however you shouldn't even need to change the profile in the first place; if your device isn't using the correct profile out of the box, that's a bug that should be fixed! However, it's a bug in PulseAudio, not any piece of KDE software. I once had the same issue and filed a bug and they were very nice and fixed it for my device at least: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues

So you should file a bug with them at https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues

Thanks!
Comment 3 Juho 2020-06-02 10:42:05 UTC
(In reply to Kai Uwe Broulik from comment #1)
> Have you checked audio settings? On the Advanced tab you can choose device
> profiles.
> 
> I wonder if there's a way to make this easier or maybe we should show a hint
> somewhere "your audio quality may be degraded because.."
> 
> What application is this in the screenshot, so I could take a look at what
> they do to offer this.

That Advanced tab is wrong place, doesn't help in this case. There isn't Bluetooth related channels.
The app itself is Blueman.
Comment 4 Juho 2020-06-02 10:44:14 UTC
(In reply to Nate Graham from comment #2)
> System Settings > Audio > Advanced > Profile should do what you want.
> 
> however you shouldn't even need to change the profile in the first place; if
> your device isn't using the correct profile out of the box, that's a bug
> that should be fixed! However, it's a bug in PulseAudio, not any piece of
> KDE software. I once had the same issue and filed a bug and they were very
> nice and fixed it for my device at least:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues
> 
> So you should file a bug with them at
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pulseaudio/pulseaudio/-/issues
> 
> Thanks!

It's not possible to select it OOBE as it depends how you want to use the device:
1) Other other profile is audio high quality stereo audio
2) And the other one is for using it in hands free mode (mic and mono audio)