Hi,

I was used to switching between laptop speakers and Bluetooth speaker on the normal audio menu.

But one day, I needed to use a TV’s speakers through HDMI, and couldn’t find it, so I initially thought it was a driver issue, but never found a fix, so I had to use a friend’s Windows laptop at the last minute because people were waiting to watch something.

Today, months later, I have the same issue, but on a different laptop with more recent hardware, so I was hoping to have better luck, and I didn’t… Until I accidentaly notice that the HDMI device is available under a submenu of the laptop’s speakers, WTF ?

Attached to this post is a screenshot showing a Bluetooth speaker, the laptop’s speakers and HDMI speakers. Why isn’t the latter available at the same location as the former two ?

The submenu could be kept for selecting between 2.0/5.1/7.1, just like for Bluetooth devices it’s used to select between aptX/LDAC/SBC, but I don’t understand what’s a whole different device doing in that submenu of the laptop’s speakers.

Thanks

  • KaKi87OP
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    1 month ago

    The thing is : I want my laptop to never have sound when using speakers, but always when connecting anything, e.g. Bluetooth or HDMI.

    So, I mute Built-in Audio Analog Stereo, but I don’t mute Turn It Up Wireless Speaker : then, when I connect the latter, it has sound, but when I disconnect it, the former stays muted, therefore I never risking being surprised by sound.

    Except, when I need to use HDMI, I actually have to unmute Built-in Audio Analog Stereo because Digital Stereo (HDMI) Output is considered to be the same item by Linux, therefore when I unplug it, it turns back to Built-in Audio Analog Stereo but stays unmuted, which leaves me at risk of being surprised by sound.