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glitchedlime

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Registered: 2026-10-18

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mic on bt headphones doesn't work

hello I have a bit of a strange problem and I'm desperate... when I connect my headphones via bluetooth, the sound works fine... but when I run a mic test and select the microphone on my headphones, not only does it not work, but the sound coming through them also stops... reselecting profiles in pwvucontrol doesn't work, however, restarting pipewire and wireplumber seems to turn it back to normal? also reconnecting the headphones works...I don't even know where to look for the problem atp..

also, the headphones work fine with my phone, so I'm assuming the problem is either with bt (which I doubt) or pipewire. I restarted and reinstalled pipewire many times and it still doesn't work...I don't know anymore

I will appreciate any help!

seth

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Re: mic on bt headphones doesn't work

Are there any messages from pipewire or bluetooth in the system journal when this happens?

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glitchedlime

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Re: mic on bt headphones doesn't work

when I try to activate headphones mic, live journal outputs this:

Oct 18 17:13:24 A16-Linux wireplumber[94079]: pw.node: (bluez_output.C8_2B_6B_92_B6_04.1-105) running -> error (Received error event)
Oct 18 17:13:24 A16-Linux wireplumber[94079]: spa.bluez5: Failure in Bluetooth audio transport /org/bluez/hci0/dev_C8_2B_6B_92_B6_04/sep1/fd0
Oct 18 17:13:24 A16-Linux pipewire[94078]: pw.node: (bluez_output.C8_2B_6B_92_B6_04.1-105) running -> error (Received error event)
Oct 18 17:13:24 A16-Linux kded6[106409]: No object for name "bluez_output.C8_2B_6B_92_B6_04.1" returning nullptr
Oct 18 17:13:24 A16-Linux plasmashell[1030]: No object for name "bluez_output.C8_2B_6B_92_B6_04.1" returning nullptr
Oct 18 17:13:26 A16-Linux plasmashell[1030]: No object for name "bluez_output.C8_2B_6B_92_B6_04.1" returning nullptr
Oct 18 17:13:26 A16-Linux kded6[106409]: No object for name "bluez_output.C8_2B_6B_92_B6_04.1" returning nullptr

seth

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Re: mic on bt headphones doesn't work

For the system journal you'll likely have to sudo journalctl (hopefully an underlying BT error gets logged)

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glitchedlime

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Re: mic on bt headphones doesn't work

It doesn't...it prints the same thing...I'm running "sudo journalctl -f" by the way

seth

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Re: mic on bt headphones doesn't work

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepo … ug=1148124 - https://archlinux.org/packages/extra/x8 … replumber/ already is at 5.18 but does a downgrade help?

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glitchedlime

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Re: mic on bt headphones doesn't work

I downgraded to 0.5.15-1 as written there - no difference

gcb

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Re: mic on bt headphones doesn't work

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Last edited by gcb (2026-10-22 18:33:20)

seth

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Re: mic on bt headphones doesn't work

Just to be sure, you downgraded both packages and then restarted the wireplumber service (resp. logged out/in or rebooted) but the connection still collapses when activating the mic?
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire … items/1013 is *way* too close to your situation to be coincidence…

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