Corsair Void RGB Elite Wireless headset notes

bgstack15 — Mon, 30 Dec 2024 13:48:00 GMT

Notes

Status indicator colors on headset:

charging = amber
done charging = green

If you use headsetcontrol to disable lights, it also disables the mute indicator light, and the mute button on the headset.

Review

One gift to me at Christmastime was the Corsair Void RGB Elite Wireless headset.

No, nobody's paying me to say any of this (or not say any of this!). If there are any offers, let me know!

The ear cushions barely fit over my ears, and I suspect they are curling my ears down a little bit, but at least it's not terribly obvious that it doesn't fit on my ears. I don't like that the headband part leans far forward on my head to make that happen too. The shape of the ear cushions depends on it sitting farther forward on my head than I would prefer, but I can probably get used to it.

The headset did not come with a manual, so it's a good thing I searched it and found it on the WWW (reference 1). There was a printed "Safety and compliance information" booklet and a "Warranty guide," but I'd rather just have a real manual. The manual states that for optimal battery life, unplug the headset when it is fully charged. It did not suggest a timeframe for that, but the initial charge was less than 7 hours. It also didn't indicate how the status indicator would tell the user that it was done charging, so that's why I have this note.

The device worked the first time when I plugged in the USB dongle to my Devuan GNU+Linux system. I use pulseaudio on top of Alsa, and pulse easily controlled the new output and input sinks. I never had to drop down to Alsamixer but maybe I should have poked around with it.

I have no ability or interest to deal with any 5.1 or 7.1 stereo stuff. Just I could tell left and right ears worked, and the mic worked. VLC piped music to it, and Discord could play back my voice to me.

My friends recommended this model to me, and in the 5 minutes I tested with it, including with Discord, shows that it should be fine. I hope my friends appreciate that my mic will have less crackle with it.

Extra features

To disable the silly rgb lights, compile https://github.com/Sapd/HeadsetControl and run:

./headsetcontrol -l 0

Interesting links

If I want to research further, check these out.

References

https://www.manualslib.com/manual/1868257/Corsair-Void-Rgb-Elite-Wireless.html

Thinkpad X230 Tablet: use headset microphone

bgstack15 — Tue, 09 Aug 2022 13:29:57 GMT

I investigated using my combined headset (headphones and microphone) jack on my Lneovo Thinkpad X230 Tablet. The headphones would work but not the microphone input. Ultimately, what I got to work was rather simple!

File /usr/local/bin/mutemic sends a little graphical popup to indicate the microphone status.

	`#!/bin/sh`
	`# File: /usr/local/bin/mutemic`
	`# Location: LTB-019`
	`# Author: bender, bgstack15`
	`# Startdate: 2022-08-07`
	`# Title: Mutemic script`
	`# Purpose: Handle mute-mic button on Thinkpad X230 Tablet`
	`# Project: X230T-headset`
	`# History:`
	`# Usage:`
	`# Called from /etc/acpi/events/mutemic`
	# Learn device name with `amixer scontrols`
	`# Related:`
	`# /etc/acpi/events/mutemic`
	`# Reference:`
	`# https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=299427`
	`# https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?t=293804`
	`# https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/sound/hd-audio/models.html`
	`# https://askubuntu.com/questions/125367`
	`# Alternatives:`
	`# /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf: options_snd_hda_intel model=dual-codecs`
	`# Improve:`
	`# Dependencies:`
	`# apt-get install acpid notification-daemon libnotify-bin`
	`# ~/.fluxbox/startup has notification-daemon &`
	`INPUT_DEVICE="Capture"`
	`YOUR_USERNAME="$( loginctl list-sessions \| awk '/seat/{print $3}' )"`
	`date "+%F $0 $@" >> ~"${YOUR_USERNAME}"/mutemic.log`
	`if amixer sget $INPUT_DEVICE,0 \| grep '\[on\]' ; then`
	`amixer sset $INPUT_DEVICE,0 toggle`
	`#echo "0 blink" > /proc/acpi/ibm/led`
	`su $YOUR_USERNAME -c 'DISPLAY=":0.0" notify-send -t 1000 \`
	`-i microphone-sensitivity-muted-symbolic "Mic MUTED"'`
	`else`
	`amixer sset $INPUT_DEVICE,0 toggle`
	`#echo "0 on" > /proc/acpi/ibm/led`
	`su $YOUR_USERNAME -c 'DISPLAY=":0.0" notify-send -t 1000 \`
	`-i microphone-sensitivity-high-symbolic "Mic ON"'`
	`fi`

The Thinkpad automatically recognizes that the correct input was muted/unmuted (although it's not exactly a mute; it's a type of input-selection or availability?) and enables the orange lamp on the mute-mic button. The /proc/acpi/ibm/led special device does not have an integer available for the mute-mic LED lamp (unless you compile a kernel module yourself?) anyways.

The above script depends on an acpi event definition, which I placed in /etc/acpi/events/mutemic:

# File: /etc/acpi/events/mutemic
# Location: LTB-019
# Author: bgstack15
# Startdate: 2022-08-07
# Title: Mic-mute operation
# Purpose: React to acpi event for mute-mic button
# History:
# Usage:
#    determine events by running acpi_listen and pressing buttons
# Related:
#    /usr/local/bin/mutemic
# Reference:
# Improve:
#    get more specific with event?
# Project: X230T-headset
# Dependencies:
#    apt-get install acpid
# Documentation:
#    In file /usr/local/bin/mutemic
event=button/micmute
action=/usr/local/bin/mutemic

After modifying this file, restart acpid service.

Extra research

I had investigated if I needed to change the driver (settings, or which driver was used?), by modifying /etc/modprobe.d/mic-input.conf:

options snd_hda_intel model=dual-codecs

There is a whole list of audio "codecs" to use in that model value. Ultimately though, I learned the original (unspecified, so "auto") settings worked, and I just needed to unmute the mic input.

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