N900 as a remote speaker over Bluetooth
 

Is there a way to make N900 to a remote speaker? :)

Re: N900 as a remote speaker over Bluetooth
 

Sure, if someone implements it.

Maybe even A2DP can be made to work other way, from PC to N900.

Having N900 to emulate USB-soundcard maybe is more difficult.

If nothing else works, at least gstreaming over a network connection (BT/WLAN/USB/GPRS).

Re: N900 as a remote speaker over Bluetooth
 

Would be great if someone could do this, or post a way here to DIY :)

Re: N900 as a remote speaker over Bluetooth
 

You should install NAS (Network Audio System) Server on N900 - it's available on repos. Next, you should configure client(it's pretty easy) and use it as a default sound device or use with some players(mplayer -ao nas, for example).
It's better to do over wi-fi, but I guess it's possible also over Bluetooth Networking.

Re: N900 as a remote speaker over Bluetooth
 

what use case are you targeting with this feature?

Re: N900 as a remote speaker over Bluetooth
 

I think that a better solution would be to do it over WiFi via PulseAudio.

Re: N900 as a remote speaker over Bluetooth
 

Yep, NAS doesn't work (for me, at least) - default configuration is unusable for Maemo, and even after manual configuration, it doesn't work - I got some "buffer underrun" errors.

The next possibility is PulseAudio, of course. But, seems it doesn't work for now either:
In theory:
On N900:
On client:
(or use pax11publish -e -S 192.168.2.15 command to make this server active for all audio output on client)

But it doesn't work - I got "E: protocol-native.c: protocol error, kicking client". Seems the protocol's version mismatch problem. On N900 we have "0.9.15" version, on my Ubuntu 10.10 client - "0.9.21-63-gd3efa-dirty".

Here is a similar topic: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=36936

Re: N900 as a remote speaker over Bluetooth
 

I would like to watch VIDEO on PC, and sit down in my bed with headphones on, the distance is 4 meters, and i don't want any cables.

I was suggesting Bluetooth, because it looked really simple, for example I searched for devices on my Nokia 6300 it found my netbook, available services ... remote audio (or something like that). I clicked on it, ant thats it. Now all the audio for my dumbphone, goes from my netbook.
The way that people pushed N900 to do things is nothing like I ever seen, so i thought this could be a simple task for N900. (Even bluetooh dialup was made by community)
The problem with wifi I have AIRFOIL (google it) and the audio lags behind, and sometimes is choppy, bluetooth on the other hand was used for audio for a long time, and worked flawlessly.
Thanks for all the help guys :)

Re: N900 as a remote speaker over Bluetooth
 

Would the same setup work to use the N900 as a bluetooth headset??? I have a bluetooth enabled home phone & it would be nice to be able to answer the home phone on the N900.

I can do it the other way,... using the home phone handsets to answer N900 calls. But it would be nice to be able to go either way.

Re: N900 as a remote speaker over Bluetooth
 

Are headsets better than the n900?

I can send music to my headset via bluetooth.
But I can't send music to my n900 via bluetooth!!!

Isn't that ridicul.