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Shawon Saha
Shawon Saha

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Enable Bluetooth Headset with microphone support on Archlinux

In most of arch based distro Bluetooth not enable by default, because of several security risks.

To get Bluetooth working open your terminal and put these commands.



sudo pacman -S --needed bluez bluez-utils pulseaudio-bluetooth


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You may also need GUI tools to configure and manage Bluetooth. I am using yay to install blueman



yay blueman


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installing blueman from yay

Start bluetooth for single session use



sudo systemctl start bluetooth


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or Enables to start Bluetooth when booting the machine (permanent)



sudo systemctl enable bluetooth


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Now open blueman and connect your bluetooth headset
blueman

After successful connection right click on connected device and check Audio and input profiles

blueman

Then hover over audio profiles and choose HSP/HFP, Codec mSBC
blueman

If everything done correctly you'll find your bluetooth microphone showing and taking input in pulseaudio.

Pulseaudio input devices

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Gander7

Been struggling with this for awhile and all I needed was that profile change for it to recognize my mic as well. Thank you.

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Grape Juice

bro this actually worked after countless hours of scrolling in google
thanks man

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Shawon Saha

Happy to help :)

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Avi McGrady

didn't know that I already set it up, just had to swap the profile. Thank you!

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