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

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

yay blueman

Start bluetooth for single session use

sudo systemctl start bluetooth

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

sudo systemctl enable bluetooth

Now open blueman and connect your bluetooth headset

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

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

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

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Comments

[Grape Juice]

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

[Shawon Saha]

Happy to help :)