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Denton-L / based-connect

A reverse-engineered Bose Connect imitation program for Linux.
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What actually IS the address? #8

Open TritonSr opened 4 years ago

TritonSr commented 4 years ago

Hey,

I just bought the headphones without really checking to see if they worked on my Debian computer like the intelligent mastermind I am, but I wanted to ask, what are you guys considering as the address? Is it the mac address and if so, how do you even find that for headphones? I thought they wouldn't have a mac address.

Also, does this program still work presently? I just bought them and the firmware is 4.5.2, and I have no idea if it'll still work.

Thanks!

With gratitude, Benjamin Ronell

stewSquared commented 4 years ago

You could use whatever method you normally use to connect to bluetooth devices to get the address.

Using bluetoothctl, I can just turn scan on, find my headphones on the list under, then see it's associated MAC address.

prurigro commented 4 years ago

You'll want to use https://github.com/EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt if you want decent sound quality (I was having issues connecting with the latest git master, but 5e6752a worked like a charm (and I was able to upgrade after that). I also had to downgrade libfdk-aac to 0.1.6 to avoid the connection getting randomly dropped, though this didn't happen to the author with the same versions of everything (though different headphones).