Stream sound from Android Phone to Opensuse using Bluetooth

Hi all.

I would like to stream sound (music, call…) from my HTC Desire HD to my opensuse box using bluetooth.

I found a tutorial on the net to achieve this: https://jprvita.wordpress.com/2009/12/15/1-2-3-4-a2dp-stream/

The problem is that the tutorial requires to make changes on Bluez package files not available on the bluez RPM for opensuse. There seem to be 2 versions of Bluez packages. You can look at the differences here:

Archlinux: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/bluez/files/

Opensuse (look at files section): http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/opensuse/factory/x86_64/bluez-4.96-5.1.x86_64.html

I tried to install Bluez on opensuse using Archlinux RPM but I gave up after seeing all the dependecies that I should manually care of.

Does any one have a solution for this ?

Does any one know if there’s a way to stream sound from Android to Linux using a method other than the one described in the tutorial ?

Thank you

Could the differences be explained by the fact that in addition to their being a ‘bluez’ for openSUSE, there are also other openSUSE packages such as bluez-alsa, bluez-compat, … etc … ie the packagers for Archlinux have put more files/libraries in their basic ‘bluez’ and possibly the openSUSE packagers have spread them out amongst a number of different packages ?

Note I don’t use bluetooth so I have never attempted anything like this before.

Some random thoughts…
I see this setup only useful to use your openSUSE as a speakerphone, it’s not necessary for streaming music because you can probably more easily configure the Bluetooth client as a disk device and then simply play the remote music file with any multimedia app of your choice on openSUSE. At the moment, I can’t think of any other reason than as a speakerphone to attempt this configuration.

The instructions in your link skip plenty of possible issues, IMO most importantly making sure that the Bluetooth profile to be used is installed on both machines.

As sparse and incomplete as the instructions are, I’m not sure it’s a reliable basis for trying this configuration.

IMO,
Tony