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Enable/disable microphone in Terminal

rated 0 times [ 7] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 4872 / 2 Years ago, thu, january 27, 2022, 2:28:20

I would like to enable or disable the microphone in the Terminal. How can I do it? For example, I use sudo modprobe -r uvcvideo to disable the webcam and sudo modprobe uvcvideo to enable it. Is there a command to to the same thing with the microphone?

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answered 2 Years ago tersle · Accepted Answer

You could try

amixer set Capture toggle

which will toggle the capture of your mic (on/off). You could even connect it to a key (e.g. XF86AudioMicMute -if you've got a key that invokes this event), so you would not even have to open a terminal for this.