SUMMARY In Settings -> Audio, all playback devices have a "Test" button. I have a laptop speaker and a bluetooth device connected. The Test button for both the devices plays the test audio through whatever is the default playback device. Shouldn't the Test ignore the default setting and play through the individual devices associated with the Test button? If not, maybe there should be only one Test button? SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Operating System: Arch Linux KDE Plasma Version: 5.23.80 (plasma-pa-git r968.20210916.61a0851) KDE Frameworks Version: 5.87.0 Qt Version: 5.15.2 Kernel Version: 5.14.5-arch1-1 (64-bit)
Hmm, it works for me with exactly that setup (laptop + bluetooth speaker).
Oh hmm. Should have mentioned I'm using pipewire implementation of pulseaudio. Maybe that's the issue? Will check with the native pulseaudio sometime.
Yeah, I'm using PipeWire too, on Fedora 34.
A possibly relevant merge request was started @ https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-pa/-/merge_requests/84
Git commit 5d9c82745f0169d7cad01f0b1bf67e64090dfe97 by Nicolas Fella. Committed on 22/09/2021 at 11:39. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'master'. [speakertest] Force canberra driver to PulseAudio Otherwise setting the device index via ca_context_change_device doesn't work and the test sound plays on the wrong device M +2 -0 src/sink.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-pa/commit/5d9c82745f0169d7cad01f0b1bf67e64090dfe97
Git commit d1f3a7002b961e621257bb592bab89040cc4dfe4 by Nate Graham, on behalf of Nicolas Fella. Committed on 22/09/2021 at 11:44. Pushed by ngraham into branch 'Plasma/5.23'. [speakertest] Force canberra driver to PulseAudio Otherwise setting the device index via ca_context_change_device doesn't work and the test sound plays on the wrong device (cherry picked from commit 5d9c82745f0169d7cad01f0b1bf67e64090dfe97) M +2 -0 src/sink.cpp https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-pa/commit/d1f3a7002b961e621257bb592bab89040cc4dfe4
Nice. Thanks Nicolas and Nate!