[14:51] <Iamthehuman> OvenWerks: I tried the hack you kindly suggested to line 355 of /usr/bin/convert-studio-controls and now it runs briefly, but exits with a "IndexError: string index out of range". This was for the problem of having some device with too short handle, and I think I recall there was a duplicate and a unnamed entry
[14:54] <Iamthehuman> I think I may be interested in a clean reinstall. I've some scripts that I've collected that rip the manually installed apts, snaps, flatpaks, but I was thinking of splashing 20€ for a pro-solution for migrations-into-clean-install from the same guy who wrote Timeshift.
[15:00] <Iamthehuman> hey, I noticed the line it was complaining about was 406 (after addition of one line, because I always comment out with ### if some line used to exist and was replaced with a modified copy of it
[15:01] <Iamthehuman> After changing line 406 to '            if not (device[0:3] == 'USB' and device[2].isdigit()):' (it used to be was device[3]) the convert-studio-controls ran fine after this change
[15:02] <Iamthehuman> I mean that must be checing if item number 4 is a digit and I changed it to evaluate item number 3
[15:02] <Iamthehuman> .. in an array or string if it works like an array
[15:03] <Iamthehuman> Danke. I'll reboot now and see if I can get JACK up
[15:09] <Iamthehuman1> And JACK is up, internal audio card not outputting to speakers, but bluetooth connects and works ok, so this is massive progress.
[15:11] <Iamthehuman1> OvenWerks: I changed the line 355 as you suggested and line 405 After changing line 406 to 'if not (device[0:3] == 'USB' and device[2].isdigit()):' (it used to be was device[3])). After theses two changes the convert-studio-controls ran fine and after reboot JACK and Studio Controls are up and running. Vielen danke für hilfe!
[15:14] <Iamthehuman1> *line 405 in the old file /usr/bin/convert-studio-controls
[16:42] <rgh> pulseaudio/bluetooth question : my bluetooth headset works fine in 21.10 but in 20.04 it only functions as  a headphone, so no mic
[16:42] <rgh> currently I have the backports ppa, disabled
[16:43] <rgh> does enabling the ppa update pulse so my headset works in 20.04 ?
[19:35] <Eickmeyer[m]> rgh: The PPA has no update or configs for pulse.
[19:36] <Eickmeyer[m]> It's intended to be application updates only.
[21:22] <rgh> Gotcha 
[21:22] <rgh> I decided to not much around with something such trivial and just wait patiently for the next lts 
[21:24] <rgh> *muck around 
[23:33] <OvenWerks> Iamthehuman12: that sounds wrong... I will check.
[23:34] <OvenWerks> Iamthehuman12: I think I have to break the if statement in two.
[23:35] <OvenWerks> In c, if the first param in an "or" is true the second is not even looked at. Maybe python does not work that way