Linux

The Alsa-Bluetooth project project provides a way to use a bluetooth headset with Linux.They do this currently by making an alsa kernel driver which uses bluez to reach the headset.

I Wrote a KDE based user space daemon wich works as drop in replacement for the btsco daemon from the Alsa-Bluetooth package. The Programm is in early beta stage. Just start it from the Console and you will have a small kicker applet in your Systray. KBtsco has a function to discover the BAddr of your Headset. Once you did the pairing via e.g. KBluetoothd package, you can click the headset icon in the Systray to connect to the headset. All actions get visualized via On-Screen-Display in the right corner of your monitor. After connecting you can push your connect button on the headset wich actually opens the sco socket. I used this tool on daily basis with Skype. Sometimes snd_bt_sco seems to crash and eats all CPU time,it’s still beta i think.

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