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by n_kr
2283 days ago
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Can you share how you configured your bluetooth headset? I have a pair of sony's noise cancelling ones, but I could never get the mic to work on linux. Thanks in advance! This is about the only gripe I've had with linux desktop in recent years. For everything else, its been at par or better than windows/osx for me. I do mostly programming, music synthesis/recording and photogrammetry/image processing on a Dell XPS-15, and its been great. |
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- use alsamixer to find out which mic is which and if they are muted (it's a CLI app)
- install blueman to have it easier to switch the headset to hsp/hfp (a2dp sink is one way and it means it's not designed to send sound from the headphones, I made that mistake)
- since I have a Dell I had to fight that pesky mute led status in alsa (haven't figured out yet what it means, I ended up disabling the internal mic in the bios to be sure it was the headphone doing the recording) ; there are bug reports about the keyboard key not doing what it's supposed to do ; the internal mic only works when I set it to On in the alsamixer menu ; you can check if the laptop led is on or off (like the webcam) ;
- use pavucontrol to try to figure out what device is doing what (it's like the sound control center but it displays more information)
- make sure to switch off every device that is not your headset/headphone (hdmi, internal, anything) ; it's funny how you can configure an audio stream (say your laptop's internal speakers) to be the recording stream: it'll just record itself
I also installed audacity and recorded myself muttering "blah blah" way too many times in order to try to identify the microphones detected by the system. I still don't understand why I have so many redundant output devices with the same name and an incremental version (:1, :2, :3) but hey.. it works (I just want to be able to video call two colleagues tomorrow, I really don't know how to control for quality if you have studio quality sound recording needs :/).