[Linphone-users] Re: feature request: alternative ring audio device

[Jesse Guardiani]

Jesse Guardiani wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm now using linphone 1.0.1 with my Bluetooth Logitech Mobile
> Freedom Headset via bluez with a D-Link DBT 120 USB
> Bluetooth adapter, and it works quite well! I'm rather
> surprised how well it works, actually.
> 
> The problems I've had with linphone and ALSA + DMIX + DSNOOP
> + ASYM don't really apply in this configuration, because
> the Bluez ALSA modules create their own mixer device. Since
> it's a bluetooth headset, I really don't plan to use it for
> anything but SIP phone calls, so I really don't mind dedicating
> it to linphone.
> 
> However, it's not real comfortable to wear the headset constantly.
> It would be really nice if linphone had a write-only alternative ring
> audio device, like gnomemeeting. That way, the headset would ring,
> but my laptop speakers could also ring. So I wouldn't have to be
> wearing the headset constantly. I could just put it on when I hear
> the laptop ring.
> 
> Just a thought. Thanks for reading!


Hey, finally I had a chance to do some coding myself. Please see
below for a diff that adds very ugly, basic, rough alternate
ring device support to linphone 1.0.1.

I hope to clean this patch up in the coming days/weeks, so please
don't take the code seriously. I was just trying to get something
working first before I make it pretty. But I'd appreciate it if
anyone interested could test the basic functionality and let me
know if it works for them. I've been using it with an ALSA
bluetooth mixer device as the primary audio device, and the
regular ALSA mixer as the alternate ring device. It works for me!

Thanks!

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Jesse Guardiani, Systems Administrator
WingNET Internet Services,
P.O. Box 2605 // Cleveland, TN 37320-2605
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linphone-1.0.1-alt-ring.patch
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