SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. connect a smartphone with Bluetooth to the PC 2. display audio volume control 3. OBSERVED RESULT Nothing is displayed about the smartphone, no sound input or sound output. EXPECTED RESULT Items are displayed about input and output about the smartphone. Thus, we can control them. SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Windows: macOS: Linux/KDE Plasma: (available in About System) KDE Plasma Version: 5.22.5 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.86.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION kde gear 21.08.1 pipewire 0.3.35 + pipewire-pulseaudio
Created attachment 141589 [details] volume settings 1
Created attachment 141590 [details] volume settings 2
no problem with pulseaudio
Do you see anything about the phone in the Bluetooth applet?
As you can see in "settings2" the smartphone is there but not in "settings1". Yes, the smartphone is well-connected and in the Bluetooth applet. In fact, the smartphone appears in KDE volume control and "settings1" only when you play video or music on the smartphone. This is different from PulseAudio, where the input and output relative to the smartphone appears when connecting. It's a regression because it is more handy to control the volume before playing something.
Gotcha, thanks. Not sure if this is a bug in the applet or somewhere deeper in the stack, though.
i made a bug report also here https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1616
to be more accurate than in "description" i must add before reporting bug: i uninstall pulseaudio by installing pipewire-pulseaudio. Because mixing piepewire and pulseaudio leads to: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewire/pipewire/-/issues/1615 https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1187699
I'm 99% sure it's not a Plasma issue, but to be sure can you please attach the output of "LANG=C pactl list" ?
Created attachment 141739 [details] result of "LANG=C pactl list"
Created attachment 141740 [details] result of "LANG=C pactl list" with bluetooth connection to smartphone Sorry I forgot to connect the smartphone then the new log is the good one.
From the output > audio-gateway: Audio Gateway (A2DP Source & HSP/HFP AG) (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority: 0, available: yes) PipeWire doesn't report any sinks our sources, so there is nothing for Plasma to show