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How to voice chat from the couch (and which headset to buy)? (piefed.social)
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Hello. I'm a PS5 gamer. Normally when I want to game with friends online, I put on my PS5 headset and it automatically connects to the console. I start a voice chat group on the console and my friend and I can chat while we play whatever game.

How does this translate to the Steam Machine + couch? Can I just use any bluetooth headset? I thought bluetooth audio had too much latency? Or is there a special type of headset I should buy? Can I start a voice chat through SteamOS? Or do I have to use a third-party app like Fluxer to voice chat?

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[–] [S] 1 point 1 month ago

Reporting back: I ended up buying the SteelSeries Nova 5X. I was gonna buy the Nova 7, but surprisingly the mic quality on the Nova 7 sucks ass. I found some videos where the reviewer showed the mic quality on the 7 vs 5 and the 5 sounded way better.

This seems pretty well supported by headsetcontrol.

$ cat /etc/os-release | head -n2
NAME="Fedora Linux"
VERSION="44.20260823.0 (Silverblue)"
$ uname -sr
Linux 7.1.9-200.fc44.x86_64
$ sudo ./headsetcontrol-x86_64.AppImage --caps
Found 1 supported device(s):
 SteelSeries Arctis Nova (5/5X) (SteelSeries Arctis Nova 5X) [0x1038:0x2253]
	Capabilities:
	* sidetone
	* battery
	* inactive time
	* chatmix
	* equalizer preset
	* equalizer
	* parametric equalizer
	* microphone mute led brightness
	* microphone volume
	* volume limiter

Hint: Use --help while the device is connected to get a filtered list of parameters

Haven't run on SteamOS yet.

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