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How can I make audio input work with Intel NUC5i3RYK

rated 0 times [ 2] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 8231 / 3 Years ago, tue, november 30, 2021, 7:25:19

That's a bit unusual, but perhaps someone's gonna know... Anyway, I bought an Intel NUC (5i3RYK). Ubuntu 15.04 works just fine and with no issues. Well, almost.

The only problem I'm having is that I can not make my headphones' microphone work with my NUC. The headset has two jacks (input and output). I was able to get sound output from the HDMI (adapter with a separate minijack audio output), but I simply can not make input work.

I plugged the audio jack (the red microphone one) of my headset into the front input/output jack socket, but no sound input device is detected. Also tried with another headset to make sure that it's not the headset issue.

I used alsamixer to make sure that there are no muted devices. The sound card clearly has a "capture" possibility and I can set a volume for it, but sadly it still doesn't work.

When I do arecord -l, I get this:

**** List of CAPTURE Hardware Devices ****

card 1: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC283 Analog [ALC283 Analog]

  Subdevices: 1/1

  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

So the device is definitely there.

Any ideas? I'd be grateful.

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answered 3 Years ago polcomposte · Accepted Answer

I managed to solve the problem by using a simple splitter, similar to this one: http://cdn3.volusion.com/yuyf4.pmrj2/v/vspfiles/photos/KM-IPHONE-2TRS-A22-2.jpg
For a reason that is still unknown, my NUC did not want to accept input when I was connecting the microphone cable directly to its jack socket. I simply connected it through that additional splitter cable and voila :). It works :).