SkypeHeadset: Make Skype calls with your Bluetooth headset
By Peter Rojas 
posted September 6th 2005 10:20AM
posted September 6th 2005 10:20AM
Obviously you have to have a Bluetooth-enabled PC to get rolling with this, but there's a new (or at least sort of
new) software app called SkypeHeadset that promises to make it easy to use any old Bluetooth wireless headset (like the
kind you might already have paired up with your cellie) to make
Skype calls from your PC. Nothing
earth shattering, but they do promise that you'll be able to use the buttons on your headset to dial, answer, or hang
up calls.
[Via TRFJ]
Pity no support for Mac
I use my bluetooth headset with skype. Just add your headset in windows, and select "bluetooth audio" under audio options in Skype. Whats different with this software?
Skype has worked with mac bluetooth headsets natively since forever. Bluetooth headsets are a normal audio input!
#2: Please spend a couple more seconds thinking before molesting the rest of the world. The last sentence of the article is the perfect answer to your useless question.
OS X Tiger already supports this functionality if you pair your headset with your Mac. If you use one of the older D-Link dongles, or an older internal Apple Bluetooth chipset, you may need to run the Firmware Updater they released a while back. The headset will show up as a speaker and a microphone in your System Preferences and will be available in Skype.
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/bluetoothfirmwareupdater12.html
Wow, i JUST bought this software the otherday.
i too used my SE 662 headset with skype but there was no way to use the buttons or display on my headset to interface with skype. now my buttons can dial people, or hangup skype not just disconnect the BT connection.
im using it and its great.
"OS X Tiger already supports this functionality if you pair your headset with your Mac."
er. unless i'm missing something frighteningly obvious, i'm afraid this isn't true. while you can use most any headset with skype and "tiger" for audio in and out, i can't do basic call control.
#3: Having a bad day? I can already answer a call(auto answer) and hang up a call(press the connectbutton on my logitech headset) ... I guess the only feature of this software is being able to make a skype call without using keyboard or mouse - and it's only 20bucks
I've been doing this on my mac for a while now. True, I can't hang up or answer call by pressing the buttons on the headset... but still... sad that you need a 3rd party software to enable this on Windows.
#9
"I've been doing this on my mac for a while now. True, I can't hang up or answer call by pressing the buttons on the headset... but still... sad that you need a 3rd party software to enable this on Windows."
Despite the fact that I'm a Machead, I still find you to be a moron. Is it any less sad that Mac users can't enable this, with or without 3rd party software, because it simply doesn't exist?!?!
I swear, this particular post has inspired some of the stupidest posts I have ever seen on Engadget. "Duh, duh, well, uhhhh, I can, like, already use my headset with Skype, der, der." Learn to read, people.
SkypeHeadset makes your PC behaves just like a mobile phone.
When a call comes in Skype you don't have to run to your PC to pickup you just click on the headset button and start talking.
When you have finished you don't have to go to Skype and press the end of call icon, you can just press the headset button again.
You can setup your favourite dial and by pressing the headset button the plugin will dial the contact for you.
There are other features like:
1) When the headset battery is discharged the plugin switch the audio to the default audio allowing you to continue your chat.
2) The same will happen when you go out of range, Bluetooth Stack failure or switch the headset off.
You can also mute and un-mute using the headset buttons (just like a mobile phone).
I nee help!
Which headset with bluetooth can I get that WILL work with MAC OS X tiguer????? I would be so happy If someone could tell me with detail about this subject.
Thanks
Val
I have been trying to use the Nokia HDW-11 BT headset with panther and now Tiger, and always had the same problem. Although it pairs perfectly with my powerbook. It doesn't stay connected. You have to shut it off and on again to reconnect. This is a problem with many BT headsets on the mac. So it is not that simple on the mac either!