On Fri, 2020-06-12 at 16:08 +0200, berend wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Jun, 2020 at 12:51, Patrick O'Callaghan > <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> 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 _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx