Pulseaudio, Phonon, KDE and forwarding sound to headset

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Some days ago I bought headet (Jabra BT2045) and I want to use it in Skype voicechat and for example to forward to it another sound streams from my KDE.

I've successfully paired and setup as headset Jabra with Blueman or BlueDevil. After that Jabra interface appeared in Phonon list and I moved it to the top of list to transfer music to Jabra, not to my main output.

But! There is no sound even if I change output manually with kmix for the streams, or when I've already setup Jabra as default output interface, microphone even don't work!
Skype don't see that Jabra interface at settings and sound will appear if I reset all to my standard output (loudspeakers).

What am I doing wrong?

My dist is Linux Mint and pulseaudio/kde/blueman/bluedevil are up to date from mint repos.

Best Answer

Does Skype know about Phonon? Phonon is a Qt framework, maybe Skype is looking directly at the alsa level? Do you see your headset with aplay -L?

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I just managed to configure exactly this thanks to the instructions in the ArchLinux wiki :

Set the one sink - HDMI - in pavucontrol/Configuration, and the other - analog output - you specify in default.pa :

load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,0
load-module module-combine-sink sink_name=combined
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Maybe you were missing the last two lines?

Addendum: This is OK to add the analog output to HDMI, but what if you want it the other way around? (I want to keep analog input, Pulse calls that "duplex"...) Unfortunately, load-module module-alsa-sink device=hw:0,3 did not work to add HDMI output to Pulse's "Analog Stereo Duplex" configuration. Pulse would start, but no HDMI output.

I compared the output of pacmd list-sinks in the two situations. When I added device=hw:0,3, that one would show up without ports. When HDMI output was chosen in pavucontrol, there would be ports. Looking at the output details, I came up with device=hdmi:0.

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Works like a charm. I keep my microphone input, and on pavucontrol/Output Devices I have all options for analog output and for HDMI.

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