I am an archlinux user using Sony WH-1000XM3 bluetooth noise-cancellation headphones. I am also using pulseaudio and it took me a while to switch the bluetooth headphones to HSP/HFP profile so the microphone can work too. Switching the bluetooth profile of your headphones to HeadSet Audio works but it is only monophonic audio and without noise-cancellation and I had to switch to piperwire also. But at least now the microphone works!
I was wondering how distros that by default have already switched to pipewire deal with this situation. So I started a fedora 34 (beta) edition and attached both my bluetooth adapter TP-LINK UB400 v1 and my web camera Logitech HD Webcam C270.
The test should be to open a jitsi meet and a zoom test meeting and verify that my headphones can work without me doing any stranger CLI magic.
tldr; works out of the box !
lsusb
[root@fedora ~]# lsusb
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0003 Linux Foundation 3.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 004: ID 046d:0825 Logitech, Inc. Webcam C270
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 0a12:0001 Cambridge Silicon Radio, Ltd Bluetooth Dongle (HCI mode)
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 0627:0001 Adomax Technology Co., Ltd QEMU USB Tablet
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
as you can see both usb devices have properly attached to fedora34
kernel
we need Linux kernel > 5.10.x to have a proper support
[root@fedora ~]# uname -a
Linux fedora 5.11.10-300.fc34.x86_64 #1 SMP Thu Mar 25 14:03:32 UTC 2021 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux pipewire
and of-course piperwire installed
[root@fedora ~]# rpm -qa | grep -Ei 'blue|pipe|pulse'
libpipeline-1.5.3-2.fc34.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-14.2-3.fc34.x86_64
pulseaudio-libs-glib2-14.2-3.fc34.x86_64
pipewire0.2-libs-0.2.7-5.fc34.x86_64
bluez-libs-5.56-4.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-libs-0.3.24-4.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-0.3.24-4.fc34.x86_64
bluez-5.56-4.fc34.x86_64
bluez-obexd-5.56-4.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-gstreamer-0.3.24-4.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-pulseaudio-0.3.24-4.fc34.x86_64
gnome-bluetooth-libs-3.34.5-1.fc34.x86_64
gnome-bluetooth-3.34.5-1.fc34.x86_64
bluez-cups-5.56-4.fc34.x86_64
NetworkManager-bluetooth-1.30.2-1.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-alsa-0.3.24-4.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-jack-audio-connection-kit-0.3.24-4.fc34.x86_64
pipewire-utils-0.3.24-4.fc34.x86_64
screenshots
Bluetooth Profiles
Online Meetings
