Mumble is an open source, low-latency, high quality voice chat application that we’re using at Canonical, and which Samba has recently also adopted.
After I busted the cable of my cabled headset and inspired by Matt’s post about Mumble and Bluetooth I bought a cheap Nokia Bluetooth headset that works with my laptop as well as my phone. By using BlueMan I even found that the headset worked out of the box on Maverick.
A nice feature in Mumble is that it is controllable using D-Bus. Blueman supports running an arbitrary command when the answer button is pressed. Combining these two features, it is possible to automatically toggle mute when the answer button is pressed:
#!/usr/bin/python import dbus bus = dbus.SessionBus() mumble = bus.get_object("net.sourceforge.mumble.mumble", "/") is_muted = mumble.isSelfMuted() mumble.setSelfMuted(not is_muted)
To use this script, set its path in the configuration tab for the “Headset” plugin in blueman.
The only remaining problem with this setup is that I can’t keep the headset on during my work day, as I don’t have a way to put it in standby mode automatically. This means that my battery runs out pretty quickly, even when nothing is happening on Mumble.
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