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Hi all, I have an interesting issue that I'm hoping can be solved. I have a pair of Anker Soundcore A40 earbuds and they connect fine to the Deck. However the Deck doesn't pick up on the microphone input at all - I've had a look under input devices and it fails to show up. Is there anything I can do (packages, drivers etc) to get this to work?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No. Using the microphone on a Bluetooth headset forces it in to HSP mode due to bandwidth constraints

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So if HSP mode is a thing on every Bluetooth headset, is there no way to trigger it on Steam Deck?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, it’s working as designed. The 3.5mm Jack also can’t sense if there’s a microphone plugged in with the headphones and just assumes there is, completely disabling the onboard microphone. Which is super annoying if you’re trying to use a pair of sennheisers or something lol. Also by design according to valve engineers

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah in the case of the 3.5mm jack it disables the onboard mic, but still lets you use the mic on your headphones, if they have one.

Looking into Bluetooth headsets, it appears that Valve has disabled them. I tried following the guide here but that ended up disabling all output sources entirely for some reason...