Comment 0 for bug 1397142

I have a Sony SRS-BTM8 Bluetooth speaker, and its audio side works fairly well with Ubuntu. It also has a play/pause button and that doesn't work so well. I think the problem lies in unity-settings-daemon.

To demonstrate that the Bluetooth side is working, if I switch to a text console and run "evtest /dev/input/event9", then when pressing the button I get events for KEY_PLAYCD if the speaker is not playing anything, and alternating KEY_PAUSECD and KEY_PLAYCD if it is playing something.

However, within the Unity desktop I find that if I'm running Banshee or Rhythmbox then pressing the button successfully pauses the music, but doesn't start it playing again. If I run "xev" and give it the keyboard focus while testing this (so xev sees all ungrabbed keystrokes) then it sees only a KeyRelease event for XF86AudioPause, but both KeyPress and KeyRelease events for XF86AudioPlay. I've attached the full output from xev.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04
Package: unity-settings-daemon 14.04.0+14.04.20140606-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.16.0-25.33~14.04.2-generic 3.16.7
Uname: Linux 3.16.0-25-generic i686
ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3.5
Architecture: i386
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Nov 27 23:43:01 2014
DistributionChannelDescriptor:
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 # For more information see http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistributionChannelDescriptor
 canonical-oem-motts-20100121-3
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2010-06-09 (1632 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu GNU/Linux 9.10 "Karmic" - Build i386 LIVE Binary 20100121-21:52
SourcePackage: unity-settings-daemon
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-08-15 (104 days ago)