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. _______________________________________________ bluetooth-dev mailing list | bluetooth-dev@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/bluetooth-dev Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. _______________________________________________ bluetooth-dev mailing list | bluetooth-dev@lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Archives: http://www.lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo/bluetooth-dev Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored.