So I’ve been messing around with steam remote play. I’ve got 2 older laptops that I’ve got running with steam that streams to both of my kids tvs. Everything works great except today I decided to see if a Bluetooth headset would work for steam/in game voice chat.

When I tried it the laptops are using their built in microphones and unlike on Windows I don’t see an option for the steam streaming microphone. I’m not sure if there is a way to get it to work but if anyone has an idea I would appreciate it.

I’m on Arch btw.

Edit: I didn’t explain myself very well. Trying to have the device running the steam link app have a Bluetooth headset/earbuds connected to it then pass the microphone input to the laptop running steam.

  • talEnglish
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    5 days ago

    You’re probably using PulseAudio somewhere in the audio stack. It can select the default output and input device. I think that many environments will have a speaker icon or something in the taskbar.

    I just run pavucontrol directly. Jump over to the “input devices” tab, and you can check the device you want to be an input.

    EDIT: If you’re using KDE, might be some Qt-based analog – pavucontrol uses GTK – but I don’t know the name off the top of my head.