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AirsoftHamster

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Registered: 2020-11-10

Posts: 74

Google Meet Not Detecting Microphone

Hi there, I have to use google meet for school, and i recently had to reset my laptop. I decided to switch to openbox as I wanted something lighter than plasma, and I can't get my mic to work in google meet now. if I install plasma and open google meet in plasma, it works just fine.

System Info:

dylan@StonksPadLite
OS: Arch Linux x86_64 
Host: 20SAS03S00 ThinkPad X1 Yoga 4th 
Kernel: Linux 5.11.16-arch1-1 
Shell: /bin/zsh 5.8 
Resolution: 1920x1080 @ 60.01Hz 
WM: Openbox 
CPU: Intel i7-10510U (8) @ 4.9GHz [53.0°on] 
Memory: 1.58GiB / 15.27GiB (10%

I use scripts connected to keybinds in rc.xml for volume management, here is the contents of the one for mic muting and unmuting.

#
#! /bin/bash
#

# volume mute
amixer set Dmic0 toggle
vol=$(amixer get Dmic0 | grep "Front Left:" | grep -o -e '\[on\]' -e '\[off\]' | sed 's/[][]//g')
notify-send -t 1 "Mircophone is currently:" "$vol"

amixer scontrols returns

dylan in ~ % > amixer scontrols
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Simple mixer control 'Headphone',0
Simple mixer control 'Speaker',0
Simple mixer control 'Bass Speaker',0
Simple mixer control 'Mic Boost',0
Simple mixer control 'Mic Mute-LED Mode',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',0
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',1
Simple mixer control 'IEC958',2
Simple mixer control 'Capture',0
Simple mixer control 'Auto-Mute Mode',0
Simple mixer control 'DAC1',0
Simple mixer control 'DAC2',0
Simple mixer control 'Dmic0',0
Simple mixer control 'Dmic1 2nd',0
Simple mixer control 'Mute-LED Mode',0
Simple mixer control 'PGA1.0 1 Master',0
Simple mixer control 'PGA2.0 2 Master',0
Simple mixer control 'PGA3.0 3 Master',0
Simple mixer control 'PGA4.0 4 Master',0
Simple mixer control 'PGA7.0 7 Master',0
Simple mixer control 'PGA8.0 8 Master',0
Simple mixer control 'PGA9.0 9 Master',0

I need this to work for school, does anyone have any ideas? Discord picks my microphone up just fine, so I dont know why google meet is being weird.

AirsoftHamster

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Registered: 2020-11-10

Posts: 74

Re: Google Meet Not Detecting Microphone

One thing I just noticed, if I am in a google meeting, sound from spotify stops working.

tsweet64

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Registered: 2021-04-29

Posts: 14

Re: Google Meet Not Detecting Microphone

It seems you are trying to use ALSA only, is that correct? Some programs require a pulse server (which Plasma would start), and it may be that Google Meet is one of them. Check whether either pulseaudio or pipewire-pulse are enabled with `systemctl --user status pulseaudio` or `systemctl --user status pipewire-pulse`. If not, enable whichever one is installed on your system (by replacing `status` with `enable` in that command). If no luck there, for further troubleshooting you could try running google meet from the terminal and see if there is output that might indicate an error.

Last edited by tsweet64 (2021-05-05 17:18:10)

AirsoftHamster

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Registered: 2020-11-10

Posts: 74

Re: Google Meet Not Detecting Microphone

dylan in ~ % > systemctl --user status pulseaudio
Unit pulseaudio.service could not be found.
dylan in ~ % > systemctl --user status pipewire-pulse
Unit pipewire-pulse.service could not be found.

I assume I need to install pulseaudio then? I just used alsa and amixer because thats what I use on my desktop with an audio interface, so i'm used to it.

tsweet64

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Registered: 2021-04-29

Posts: 14

Re: Google Meet Not Detecting Microphone

Yeah, give pulseaudio a try. If it doesn't end up fixing the problem you could remove it if you still prefer ALSA only