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This mail service explains how you can enable bluetooth headset microphone support by installing pipewire in Ubuntu 20.04

Ok, I recently purchased a new BOLTT BH1300 bluetooth headset, which has inbuilt microphone back up. The master purpose of the headset was to enable Meetings without having to worry almost wires. My Headset instantly continued to the laptop's bluetooth and to my surprise, the mic was not working. Upon checking the System settings, I found that it was still using the laptop's internal microphone which was already cleaved and was non usable. Come across the screenshot beneath:

Upon googling and petty with my configuration for a few hours, I found that this was a very mutual trouble on the Ubuntu Linux and the pulseaudio  was to blame. And then, typically what happens is that for microphone to work, you require HSP (Handset Profile) /HFP(Hands-Free Profile) support in your OS and that is provided by default audio driver pulseaudio in instance of Ubuntu linux and pulseaudio does not support HSP out of the box.

It took me some hours to finally make information technology work using pipewire which is an open up source software that aims to greatly improve treatment of audio and video under Linux. At that place were other options too like using oFono library just it was useless to me and too much of configuration. oFono is a mobile telephony software and it was never meant for this detail problem anyway. If you guys are also suffering from the same problem so please follow the rest of the article.

Enable Bluetooth headset microphone

Earlier installing pipewire, delight make certain that your consequence is the same as mine.

First, type this command in Terminal

$] bluetoothctl

Information technology should show something like this:

[BOLTT BH1300]#

Where BOLTT BH1300 is my device name. type info and you lot volition come across info about your headset:

                Device 07:F8:87:8F:B9:ED (public) 	Name: BOLTT BH1300 	Alias: BOLTT BH1300 	Class: 0x00340404 	Icon: sound-card 	Paired: yes 	Trusted: yeah 	Blocked: no 	Connected: aye 	LegacyPairing: no 	UUID: Serial Port               (00001101-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) 	UUID: Audio Sink                (0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) 	UUID: A/5 Remote Control Target (0000110c-0000-g-8000-00805f9b34fb) 	UUID: Avant-garde Audio Distribu.. (0000110d-0000-g-8000-00805f9b34fb) 	UUID: A/V Remote Command        (0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) 	UUID: Handsfree                 (0000111e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) 	UUID: PnP Information           (00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb) 	Modalias: bluetooth:v05D6p000Ad0240                              

Notice Audio Sink which is necessary to make sure the headset'due south microphone is detected. Blazon quit to leave from bluetoothctl.

Now run pacmd list-cards to prove all connected devices.

It should show all the devices. Locate your bluetooth headset and look for the profiles key similar below. headset_head_unit bachelor no means that HSP/HFP is not enabled.

                profiles:     a2dp_sink: High Allegiance Playback (A2DP Sink) (priority 40, available: unknown)     headset_head_unit: Headset Caput Unit (HSP/HFP) (priority 30, bachelor: no)     off: Off (priority 0, available: yes) active profile: <a2dp_sink>                              

As pulseaudio does non support HSP/HFP by default, we can override it with the pipewire library.

Installing Pipewire in ubuntu 20.04

To Install pipewire, you need to add a pipewire repository. Type the post-obit command in Last:

                sudo add-apt-repository ppa:pipewire-debian/pipewire-upstream sudo apt update sudo apt install pipewire sudo apt install libspa-0.2-bluetooth sudo apt install pipewire-sound-customer-libraries              

One time updated, yous volition need to reload bluetooth services and mask pulseaudio.

                systemctl --user daemon-reload systemctl --user --now disable pulseaudio.service pulseaudio.socket systemctl --user mask pulseaudio systemctl --user --now enable pipewire-media-session.service              

If you come across some issues in the last control, which I did likewise. The best way is to restart pipewire or reboot your system.

                systemctl --user restart pipewire sudo reboot # make sure eveything is working pactl info                              

I don't know why but for me, information technology never worked direct and I always had to choose the Headset in Microphone settings manually as shown below.

Please keep in heed that choosing HSP/HFP profile makes your bluetooth in mono mode and you lose stereo sound. I would recommend you to use information technology only in case of meetings.

Yous tin now savour your bluetooth headsets fully in your Ubuntu Linux. Take a great day. Thank you.

Source: https://kumarvinay.com/how-to-enable-bluetooth-headset-microphone-support-in-ubuntu-20-04/

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