I’m using a pair of sony WH1000XM3 bluetooth headphones as the speakers for my manjaro system (XFCE). They’ve successfully paired and can play sound fine, but I can’t use its microphone as a sound source. (Is not detected/listed at all in Input devices)
Are there any ways to use it as both speaker input and output? (works as both with a windows system)
I have the same issue with my Bose QC. People at work also got same issue with other bluetooth headphones on other distributions so it looks like a general issue sadly. Can’t find a solution anywhere sadly.
I also have the same problem, I was able to pair my WF-1000XM3 headphones with a manjaro linux system with KDE plasma and a 5.4.58 kernel but the system does not recognize the microphone, it is frustrating because I cannot find the solution either
I have similar problem. On my older laptop everything works fine but on my new laptop mic and controls are not working. They use same distro, kernel, headset… Weird. Honestly linux audio needs better solution than PulseAudio. I can’t see linux on desktop becoming more popular with this audio implementation.
It should show up when you switch to HSP/HFP audio profile in the bluetooth settings.
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It has noticeably worse audio quality, but actually works! Thanks for the solution
Yeah, it is really a pain with bluetooth/mic & linux.
I hope things will improve soon (although nothing really happened for years…)
Looks like there’s actually a lot of attention and reports on those bugs, keen for updated to come through master when they’re ready. Cheers
Oh no, the contributor got fed up with lack of progress and closed those PRs 
I tried to install GitHub - EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt: [Deprecated, see https://github.com/EHfive/pulseaudio-modules-bt/issues/154] Adds Sony LDAC, aptX, aptX HD, AAC codecs (A2DP Audio) support to PulseAudio on Linux but it seems like it only improves the audio receiving quality, and does not help with the microphone issue.
Hello,
– edit: i’m using gnome manjaro, and got a 9260 intel m.2 network chip –
I managed to get my Sony 1000xm3 to work through the following installs, not sure which ones are mandatory:
- pulseaudio-modules-bt (aur)
- pavucontrol
- sound and microphone gnome extension
the steps:
- obviously connect to the audio and check that the headphones are available
- select the speakers to be the output peripherals
- open PAVUCONTROL
- in pavucontrol, go to “read” or “play” (i got manjaro in french sorry, the first tab anyway)
- All the way down, show either “all streams” or “applications” you’re using (firefox in my instance)
- you’ll see next to the selected application a peripheral, just before the speaker icon
- select the WH-1000XM3 or the peripheral you are looking to install.
Now if you’re as lucky as me, it should work. Let me know!
Thanks for the extra option dekipantelija. Clarification, are you doing this with the “HSP/HFP audio profile” option or with the XM3’s in “A2DP mode”?
The A2DP mode has much better audio quality than the HSP mode so excited if that’s the case.
wait, they have a microphone in them? are you sure? I have never even seen that pop up on my phone with my pair. I know they have a crappy one for voice assistant but I didn’t think they had a proper one.
yeah sony don’t list a mic as part of the device. product page
They very definetly have a microphone that I’ve used as a handsfree for my phone and computer.
Hi,
sorry for the late reply, didn’t get a notification (ended in spam).
Clarification, are you doing this with the “HSP/HFP audio profile” option or with the XM3’s in “A2DP mode”?
I use the A2dp LDAC option. I also made sure that, on the sony smartphone app, the priority was on sound quality (sound → sound quality mode).
I honestly didn’t try HSP mode as i wanted the LDAC.
Hope you’ll make /you’ve made it work!
wait, they have a microphone in them? are you sure? I have never even seen that pop up on my phone with my pair. I know they have a crappy one for voice assistant but I didn’t think they had a proper one.
Yes they do (thank heavens for the price), and for some time they used to be forcing themselves over the speakers, which drived me nuts. Solved it by giving the bluetooth the time to discover the headphones properly.