<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Sorry, I should have written "output" capabilities of a microphone. Pulseaudio switches to the microphone as an output device when I plug it in, which is not what I want. So I'm looking for ways to make pulse audio use the microphone as an output device, but not as an input device.<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Jun 4, 2021 at 2:54 AM guest271314 <<a href="mailto:guest271314@gmail.com">guest271314@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">I do not gather the requirement. <div><br></div><div>You can mute the device.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jun 3, 2021 at 9:22 AM Damian Nadales <<a href="mailto:damian.nadales@gmail.com" target="_blank">damian.nadales@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Hi,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I have a Blue Yeti microphone, which has a microphone jack and acts as an output device. However I do not want pulse audio to use this device to output sound.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">After browsing for hours it seems that the most sensible solution would be to:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">- define an udev rule for the device that loads a custom configuration for it</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">- define a custom configuration for the device, which sets its direction to "input" only</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I tried to do this, but it failed:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><a href="https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/652660/how-to-define-a-pulseaudio-profile-that-ignores-the-input-capabilities-of-a-mi" target="_blank">https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/652660/how-to-define-a-pulseaudio-profile-that-ignores-the-input-capabilities-of-a-mi</a></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I cannot find a way to get any logs, and I do not know what would be a sensible way to define such a profile. Do you have any suggestions? <br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">I'm running Ubuntu 20.04.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Thank you in advance,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:small">Damian.<br></div></div>
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