GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 784905
No icon for audio-handsfree
Last modified: 2020-11-26 14:41:30 UTC
Bluetooth devices which report themselves as "handsfree" don't currently have an icon. This manifests itself in the sound panel in control center where "handsfree" devices show the missing-icon icon. The icon filename should be "audio-handsfree[.png]" in the "devices" directory.
Some handsfree devices actually show up as audio-headset, so I would be interested to hear if those coming up as audio-device-handsfree look different to a regular wireless headset.
Will, my bluetooth headset shows up as audio-headset instead of audio-handsfree.
Could you provide more detail about your handsfree device?
Only one of my Bluetooth speakers exhibits this property. It's a cheap, unbranded Bluetooth speaker. It shows up with the name "SP5000" and supports the A2DP and HSP/HFP profiles. [SP5000]# info Device A0:E9:DB:33:13:36 Name: SP5000 Alias: SP5000 Class: 0x240408 Icon: audio-card Paired: yes Trusted: yes Blocked: no Connected: yes LegacyPairing: yes UUID: Headset (00001108-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) UUID: Audio Sink (0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) UUID: A/V Remote Control Target (0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) UUID: A/V Remote Control (0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) UUID: Handsfree (0000111e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
In Bluetooth parlance, handsfree (HFP) is the protocol used by low-quality earpieces such as this one: https://multimedia.bbycastatic.ca/multimedia/products/1500x1500/102/10293/10293494.jpg It's the equivalent of the one earpiece with the microphone on the cable from the early Nokia days. Headset usually has 2 earpieces (like a pair of headphones) and a microphone, like this one: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51ruWJJ3CCL._SX425_.jpg PulseAudio makes the difference between the two based on the profiles available, but I wouldn't bother trying to differentiate them. You can have cars with those profiles. Just copy audio-headset to audio-handsfree to shut up the warnings, and we'll go fixing PulseAudio to pass along the information about the physical shape of the device.
By the way, I have one of these that shows up with audio-headset https://www.amazon.com/Jabra-Talk-2/dp/B0727QFFCC/
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