Re: Bluetooth Telephony & Mac OS X
Re: Bluetooth Telephony & Mac OS X
- Subject: Re: Bluetooth Telephony & Mac OS X
- From: Craig Pugsley <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 15:41:05 +0100
This is actually something that I have been seriously thinking about
too... I'm nowhere near the level of skill required to be able to code
parts of the bluetooth IO stack, but I do know that if such facilities
were available, it would be a wonderful addition to the fantastic
capabilities already available. One of the first things anyone who uses
bluetooth with their computer asks is 'how can I use my bluetooth
headset / internal mic as the input to my phone?' (me being one of them
and a Win XP user I work with being another).
There would be some serious WOW factor to being able to click 'accept
call' when AddressBook.app informs that a call is coming in and then
using the computer's audio in/out to take the call...
Just my 2p's worth
CraigP
On Thursday, April 24, 2003, at 05:15 PM, Michael Larson wrote:
Unfortunately we cannot comment on future releases at Apple, so I
cannot say whether we are or are not working on SCO.
What I can tell you is what is missing from the current
implementation. Currently the Apple HCI controller driver does not
open any of the SCO pipes to the USB device, so this is the major
missing piece.
Additionally, there is a hardware question to answer before you know
if support will be possible with a given dongle. Some Bluetooth
silicon will support SCO with the audio being piped across some
external HW codecs and ports, which are not available on the USB bus,
where others will provide access to incoming and outgoing audio data
over the USB interface.
So what is needed from the Bluetooth perspective is the addition of
code to open and read/write the isochronous USB pipes on the Bluetooth
dongle married with a USB dongle which can support the audio data
piped over the USB interface. On top of the Bluetooth pieces that are
missing is the code needed to pipe data into and out of the Mac OS X
audio system. I am not very familiar with the audio system, and how
to write drivers in that world, however that information can be found
at:
http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/macosx/Darwin/IOKit/DeviceDrivers/
Audio/WritingAudioDrivers/index.html
-larson
On Thursday, April 24, 2003, at 07:36 AM, Michael A. Crawford wrote:
Is anyone currently working on adding these missing pieces (third
party or Apple)? What underlying plumbing is missing for SCO? Is
this missing plumbing hardware, software, or both? If all the
hardware is there and no-one is about to release the missing
software, maybe I can get to work on it. I've implemented protocols
before, from OSI layer 2 on up.
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