On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 16:08 +0200, berend wrote:
On Fri, 12 Jun, 2020 at 12:51, Patrick O'Callaghan
<pocallaghan(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-06-11 at 22:36 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote:
> > A headset works way better. You avoid echo and feedback issues and
> >
> > usually a headset microphone will have better sound than the
> > built-in one.
>
> It may depend on the model. I have some Bluetooth earbuds I've been
> trying to configure for this, and although the headset is recognised
> by
> the system, the mic is not, though the buds work fine on my phone.
>
Bluetooth is a mess for this. As a headphone it uses A2DP, and then
when it
switches to microphone it becomes HFP, which is usually mono.
So if you use A2DP to listen (the default), the microphone won't work.
If
you switch to HFP, the microphone will work but you'll likely get worse
audio.
You should have HFP available under the audio settings (assuming your
bluetooth chip has it in firmware)
The buds (Cambridge Audio Melomania) do support A2DP, AVRCP, HSP, and
HFP but the HFP option with pavucontrol-qt is marked 'unavailable'.
Maybe it needs a driver of some kind.
poc