Return-Path: Message-ID: <5eee8c670706030625o6aad300al5b1848f4e9394ebd@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2007 14:25:35 +0100 From: "Odysseus Flappington" To: bluez-users@lists.sourceforge.net MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: [Bluez-users] a2dp stream + bluetooth mouse not working at same time Reply-To: BlueZ users List-Id: BlueZ users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0867068909==" Sender: bluez-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net Errors-To: bluez-users-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net --===============0867068909== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_25404_12434190.1180877135684" ------=_Part_25404_12434190.1180877135684 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi, I've got the MS IntelliMouse Explorer for Bluetooth, and a pair of Orange Bluetooth speakers (http://www.acoustic-energy.co.uk/News_and_reviews/orangebluetooth.asp). I'm using Feisty Fawn and have configured bluetooth-alsa to stream all sounds to the bluetooth speakers (via .asounrc in pcm.!default) which works well enough if it's the only bluetooth device I'm using. The only issue is, whenever I connect and move the mouse (using hidd) while I'm streaming music using a2dpd, the music starts cutting out and jumping until I stop moving the mouse. My first thought was that the bluetooth device reached a bandwidth limit. However, a thought occurred to me- since the mouse is sending to the bluetooth device, but the speakers are receiving from the device- is there not a separate send/receive bandwidth? One thing I have tried is disabling the bluetooth sniff mode by echoing 0 to /sys/class/bluetooth/hci0/idle_timeout, which I think may be providing a slight improvement on things (altho it's hard to tell). Am I expecting too much from my bluetooth transceiver? Anyone have any ideas how I can improve the performance of these two devices working together? Regards, Alex ------=_Part_25404_12434190.1180877135684 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Hi,

I've got the MS IntelliMouse Explorer for Bluetooth, and a pair of Orange Bluetooth speakers ( http://www.acoustic-energy.co.uk/News_and_reviews/orangebluetooth.asp). I'm using Feisty Fawn and have configured bluetooth-alsa to stream all sounds to the bluetooth speakers (via .asounrc in pcm.!default) which works well enough if it's the only bluetooth device I'm using.

The only issue is, whenever I connect and move the mouse (using hidd) while I'm streaming music using a2dpd, the music starts cutting out and jumping until I stop moving the mouse. My first thought was that the bluetooth device reached a bandwidth limit. However, a thought occurred to me- since the mouse is sending to the bluetooth device, but the speakers are receiving from the device- is there not a separate send/receive bandwidth?

One thing I have tried is disabling the bluetooth sniff mode by echoing 0 to /sys/class/bluetooth/hci0/idle_timeout, which I think may be providing a slight improvement on things (altho it's hard to tell). Am I expecting too much from my bluetooth transceiver? Anyone have any ideas how I can improve the performance of these two devices working together?

Regards,
Alex
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