Bluetooth and Remote Desktop
I have an odd use case, and I am trying to find a way to make it work.
I have a windows desktop for my home computer, it is running windows 10. I also have a windows 10 laptop provided by my employer. In order to use my full size keyboard/mouse/monitor I typically connect to the laptop from my desktop using rdp. This works fine, I have my laptop running in an RDP session on one desktop monitor and my other monitor is free for anything else. This works great and I have been very happy with it.
Where I am running into problems, is that we use ms teams internally for meetings and conference calls. I am struggling to find a workable solution for audio for these meetings.
I have tried the following,
- Configure RDP to send audio to the local computer (my desktop). This works fine for audio playback, but I am not able to send audio input from my local computer(desktop) to the remote computer(laptop).
- I tried using a bluetooth headset connected to the laptop. I get some audio (system sounds). The headset is recognized as a device my teams, but no audio is sent or received from the headset.
- I tried plugging a logitech headset directly into the laptop, and windows seems to recognize the headset fully. When I look at the sound settings I see the "test your microphone" bar moving around, system sounds are played through the headset as well. I don't get any application audio sent to the headphones and microphone input isn't picked up by teams, or other applications.
I realize this is a little bit odd, and RDP isn't often used to connect to a device sitting right next to you, but I feel like this should be possible somehow, but I am missing it
I realized I never came back to this. In the end rebooting both systems resolved the issue. Audio pass through worked in both directions using a headset connected to my desktop. Should have tried a reboot before much earlier in the troubleshooting process.