piglith
03-18-2006, 11:29
Hello all,
Wanted to say thank you for posting all the info on the Plantronics and Widcomm. It has helped me a lot in trying to figure out how to get this thing to work. I wanted to post some positive notes on how I got things working perfectly (at least as advertized)
First off. I bout the 590a and MSI Star Key 2.0 and just couldn't get the HQSA working. I tryed diffrent builds of the Widcomm driver and everything.
After messing around trying diffrent combos I had the HQSA working one time. After reading this Forum I found some insight to this problem. I thought it was the dongel. But the latest driver probably works.
I went and bought a Kensington 2.0 dongel. Messed with it and still had the same problem of not getting my stereo audio. Everything else worked perfectly.
What I concluded is that a lot of extra "Bluetooh" infomation was being configured into the Windows XP registry. This was from all the installs of the diffrent drivers and re-installs. I finaly got mad and removed everything bluetooth I found outside of the MS stuff. ( If you edit the Windows Registry it is at your own risk! )
Then disabled the MS bluetooth via the renaming of the two files mention in another thread.
Installed the Drivers from the Kensington CD. Widcomm 4.0.1 (2400 build). Then followd the "how I got the 590a working" tutorial also found in another thread.
Now what I have with the Audio side with the 590a. I have two mixer chanels. Bluetooth Audio and Bluetooth High Quality. In testing with MS Media and starting the connection via the tutorial. I can pause (indicating the 590a is sending pause (from mute button). Pressing the chanel switch will switch over to the Bluetooth audio (my windows audio for everything else outside stereo music). This can be defined as the default audio for windows in and out. but only in mono. Therefor the 590a does as advertized. MS media player uses a special codec to stream stereo audo to the headset. You can not get raw stereo audio out of windows with out going threw the codec. Meadia player must iniate the audio connect first. If you redefine the device you can get the windows audio in stereo but you must maintain an audio stream out of Media player. Its a pain in da ars, but thats how it works. There is DRM crap in there too for the bluetooth.
I'm writing this to let people know, because there is a lot of confusion on how this thing is supoes to work. It works really good and with the help from reading threads on this forum base I've finaly got it working as advertized. This is disapointing to me because I was hoping for a true two way Stereo Windows connecion. But hey I got the 590a really cheep so I'm accepting the way it work for what it is.
Now what we need is some great programmer to come up with a new driver that routes the windows audio threw the codec with out having to have media player. That would be awesome.
FYI, I've also tested with Winamp but you have to iniate the Stream connection with Media player first. Start Winamp after you some music playing with Media player then once Winamp is playing you can then close media player.
The MSI Star Key 2.0 will probably work from a default install and following the Tutorial but I'm not going to messes with changing configurations now that I have it working with the Kensington.
Wanted to say thank you for posting all the info on the Plantronics and Widcomm. It has helped me a lot in trying to figure out how to get this thing to work. I wanted to post some positive notes on how I got things working perfectly (at least as advertized)
First off. I bout the 590a and MSI Star Key 2.0 and just couldn't get the HQSA working. I tryed diffrent builds of the Widcomm driver and everything.
After messing around trying diffrent combos I had the HQSA working one time. After reading this Forum I found some insight to this problem. I thought it was the dongel. But the latest driver probably works.
I went and bought a Kensington 2.0 dongel. Messed with it and still had the same problem of not getting my stereo audio. Everything else worked perfectly.
What I concluded is that a lot of extra "Bluetooh" infomation was being configured into the Windows XP registry. This was from all the installs of the diffrent drivers and re-installs. I finaly got mad and removed everything bluetooth I found outside of the MS stuff. ( If you edit the Windows Registry it is at your own risk! )
Then disabled the MS bluetooth via the renaming of the two files mention in another thread.
Installed the Drivers from the Kensington CD. Widcomm 4.0.1 (2400 build). Then followd the "how I got the 590a working" tutorial also found in another thread.
Now what I have with the Audio side with the 590a. I have two mixer chanels. Bluetooth Audio and Bluetooth High Quality. In testing with MS Media and starting the connection via the tutorial. I can pause (indicating the 590a is sending pause (from mute button). Pressing the chanel switch will switch over to the Bluetooth audio (my windows audio for everything else outside stereo music). This can be defined as the default audio for windows in and out. but only in mono. Therefor the 590a does as advertized. MS media player uses a special codec to stream stereo audo to the headset. You can not get raw stereo audio out of windows with out going threw the codec. Meadia player must iniate the audio connect first. If you redefine the device you can get the windows audio in stereo but you must maintain an audio stream out of Media player. Its a pain in da ars, but thats how it works. There is DRM crap in there too for the bluetooth.
I'm writing this to let people know, because there is a lot of confusion on how this thing is supoes to work. It works really good and with the help from reading threads on this forum base I've finaly got it working as advertized. This is disapointing to me because I was hoping for a true two way Stereo Windows connecion. But hey I got the 590a really cheep so I'm accepting the way it work for what it is.
Now what we need is some great programmer to come up with a new driver that routes the windows audio threw the codec with out having to have media player. That would be awesome.
FYI, I've also tested with Winamp but you have to iniate the Stream connection with Media player first. Start Winamp after you some music playing with Media player then once Winamp is playing you can then close media player.
The MSI Star Key 2.0 will probably work from a default install and following the Tutorial but I'm not going to messes with changing configurations now that I have it working with the Kensington.