Bluetooth audio pairing to car questions
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Hi all-
I have my new Pixel 3a working with UT Focal, and have been attempting to pair it to the car. For the most part it is working, but i'm not sure if i have it configured properly.
To get it working, i had to connect both Hands-Free Phone and A2DP audio. When both are enabled, calls come in and are redirected through the car's audio properly.
However, in this configuration other phone sounds are not heard at all. For example: an alarm, or text message notification. I think the phone is trying to redirect it to the car, but nothing is heard through either the pone or the car.
Now, if i disconnect from A2DP audio and have only Hands-Free Phone enabled, calls will still come in and i can answer through the car's interface (so i'm still connected somehow), but both my voice and the voice on the other end are going through the phone, not through the car's audio.
So my questions are: have i done some sort of mis-configuration between the car and phone? Is there some other setting i am missing? Is there a way to get other phone sounds playing through the car?
Hope someone can help. Thanks!
-Fizz
(PS- on the plus side, it behaves way better than my Nexus 5 Xenial, which only gave me garbled noise.)
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Hrmmm.... no replies after 7 days. Am i the only one experiencing this? Is it normal?
-Fizz
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@Fizz Bluetooth issues on Linux devices are common and hit or miss. What works for one person does not work for another unless they have the same devices down to their revision numbers.
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Android is also Linux. Bluetooth works perfectly there. What worked on Xenial with the same Bluetooth device was a disappointment on Focal. I think the developers have updated the Bluetooth stack interface or someone once said something like that. If this is wrong, no problem. But sometimes Linux also has problems with Bluetooth. Personally, that's why I still have older hardware to use Linux.
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@arubislander said in Bluetooth audio pairing to car questions:
Bluetooth issues on Linux devices are common and hit or miss.
@DPITTI said in Bluetooth audio pairing to car questions:
But sometimes Linux also has problems with Bluetooth.
Seems like we are in agreement.
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@arubislander Yes, absolutely
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Thanks for the replies. Bluetooth does work, it's just a matter of whether i can get regular system sounds from UT (for example, the Clock alarm) to work while connected to Bluetooth.
Getting Bluetooth phone audio to work seems to require both HFP and A2DP to be enabled. But doing so seems to force linux to try to send ALL sounds to the car, but only the phone sounds are being heard. To continue my example- when the UT Clock alarm goes off, there is no noise- neither from the phone or through the car.
I realize there is the car side to consider too, which is beyond the purview of the help boards.
But i was hopefull someone had some idea of how to resolve it.-Fizz