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HFP

Hands-Free Profile (HFP)

HFP describes how a gateway device can be used to place and receive calls for a hand-free device.

Usage Scenarios

A common scenario would be a car kit in your vehicle. The car kit would connect to your mobile phone and be used to place and receive calls. Even more common would be the use of your wireless headset to place and receive calls when connected to a mobile phone.

Example Products

Here are a few examples of the types of devices that you might find using the HFP:

  • Car
  • Car Kit
  • GPS system
  • Headset
  • Mobile phone
  • PDA

Getting Technical

The HFP defines two roles, that of an Audio Gateway (AG) and a Hands-Free unit (HF):

  • Audio Gateway (AG) – This is the device that is the gateway of the audio, both for input and output, typically a mobile phone.
  • Hands-Free Unit (HF) – This is the device acting as the Audio Gateway’s remote audio input and output mechanism. It also provides some remote control means.

 

Need more? View the Hands-Free Profile (HFP) 1.5.

The Baseband, LMP and L2CAP are the OSI layer 1 and 2 Bluetooth protocols. RFCOMM is the Bluetooth serial port emulation entity. SDP is the Bluetooth Service Discovery Protocol.

Compatibility to v1.1 or later Core Specification is required.

Hands-Free control is the entity responsible for Hands-Free unit specific control signaling; this signaling is AT command based.

Although not shown in the model to the left, it is assumed by this profile that Hands-Free Control has access to some lower layer procedures (for example, Synchronous Connection establishment).

The audio port emulation layer shown in the figure to the left is the entity emulating the audio port on the Audio Gateway, and the audio driver is the driver software in the Hands-Free unit.

For the shaded protocols/entities in the figure to the left, the Serial Port Profile is used as the base standard. For these protocols, all mandatory requirements stated in the Serial Port Profile apply except in those cases where this specification explicitly states deviations.

 
 
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