But AirPods are the only wireless headphones with which you can use the mic without having to suffer from horrible audio playback and microphone quality because of Headset/Handsfree.

They suffer from that on both Linux and MacOS.

Not Linux: librepods/#655

They do, and that's what is coming to Linux with PR #655. surprisingly, last I checked, even macOS doesn't support this!

PR #655 of which project? I thought you meant Wireplumber but that's not it: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/wireplumber/-/merge_...

Edit: You meant Librepods. Apparently I managed to forget what we were commenting on in the first place.

The dev here- there are exactly 2 features- Head Gestures and heart rate monitoring. Both have no use on Linux. On Android head gestures is to answer calls and heart rate will be provided to Health Platform.

edit: there's just one that's not planned for Linux and planned for Andorid- HRM. Head gestures is already implemented on Android.

Is there a reason head gestures couldn't be mapped to functions in Linux? I see little reason why you couldn't have it used to play/pause or something. Heart rate monitoring less-so... but even that exposure could be useful for something if given the right API.

Hi! The developer here. The app requires a purchase only when you install it from Play Store. The FOSS version available on GitHub takes you to my GH Sponsors page where you can wait for a few seconds and return back to the app. Or you can also just click the Restore Purchases button. There's no need for a fork :)

It was a typo in the GH repo description, fixed it.

apple doesn't allow much customization, only the 9 presets under accessibility>hearing>headphone accomodation. this eq then also applies to the audio played and transparency settings both. maybe one of those nine presets suits your needs?

setting up hearing aids is a one time thing. then, the main adjustment is the amplification, which can be controlled by swiping on the stem. there is no need for an iphone for using it as hearing aids.

The developer here- I didn't plan to release an app for android, or even linux. The android app just started out as a personal project. My plan was to make a service for linux that can talk to various headphones, and any UI can talk to the service. And this was supposed to be under AGPL. But, as I graudally reverse-engineered most of the protocol from the bluetooth stack on macOS, I decided to release the app for Android and make one for linux as well.

Going to change it to GPL, though. never paid attention to the license in use as I developed.

Thanks for the direct reply. I didn't consider the SaaS angle when I wrote my original post. As a result, your initial license choice makes sense. Also, if you are in control of copyright for all of the source code, then you can easily change the license. I am still blown away by how you did it. It must have been a lot of reverse engineering! Hats off -- keep up the good work.

Apple devices uses their own codec, which isn't even supported on macOS, that supports high definition two-way streaming

the head gestures is something i couldn't quite figure out, so the gesture logic is completely AI generated. i don't know how to get the actual values from the sensors. but there sure is a use in gaming.