Microphone with video meeting in Firefox

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Hi,

I’m trying to get video meeting to work on Leap 15.1/KDE and Firefox but can’t get sound input to work.

I know the microphone is OK and working on the system as Zoom meeting which is a standalone client works. Sound input in browser doesn’t work however. Tried both Firefox and Chromium with Google Meet, Whereby and Messenger without success. Tried to mess with system settings under KDE/Plastma.

Sound output and video is working and I’ve allowed browser access to sound and video. The microphone indicator in the various video meetings are not reading any input.

How can I debug this?

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I had a similar experience with G-Meet, Firefox and Gnome Desktop; not sure how I fixed it but you can try the following.
When you access meet.google.com the site should ask for permission to use your microphone. It might not work whatever you do.
Then go to Firefox Preferences, Privacy&Security tab, scroll down to Permissions > Microphone > click Settings.
You should see an entry for https://meet.google.com with a dropdown menu, check “Allow” then “Save Changes”.
Maybe you have to restart Firefox as well.
On the next access to that site the microphone should work as expected.

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Thanks for the reply, but mic was already enabled/allowed for Meet.

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For both Crome/Chromium and Firefox I’ve seen dozens of people that use some popup blocker, which means they do not see the popups re. permissions to camera/mic.

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Yes, but I get the popups and and have answered “allow” to both camera and mic. I’ve also verified this in settings

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@olejacob:

Are there any errors and/or warnings being logged in the XOrg/Wayland session log? – Usually located somewhere in a ‘~/.local/share/’ directory.

Are there any errors and/or warnings being logged in the systemd Journal?

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Fixed the problem. Opened Pulseaudio volume control and selected “Recording”. This is by default set to “Built-in audio analog stereo”. Selecting “Webcam C270 analog mono” I got sound input from mic. This setting doesn’t stick however. How can I get this setting to be saved/default?

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Set the default source as explained here
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#Set_default_input_source

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@olejacob:

Just for the record and, assuming that, you have the package “pulseaudio-utils” installed, please post the output of the following Pulse Audio tool:


 > pactl info
 > pactl stat
 > pactl list short