Hi, I'm relatively new to this list and so not yet familiar with what's tolerated in terms of mentioning Windows. I mention it in my below message because I think it's relevant to the problems I'm having and my knowledge/desire of how it might work. If I've gone off topic please cut me some slack, it's hard to know what list to post on sometimes when you need Mac knowledge but Windows behaviour is also relevant.
I'm using a Mac (10.8.4) plus Windows 7 in a virtual machine via Vmware Fusion. I use a headset sometimes. If I connect the headset before switching on the Mac or before starting up Windows, it automatically becomes available for both Windows and Mac but if I connect it after starting up Windows I am asked whether I want to connect to Mac or Windows. I'm having some audio problems on the Mac side of things and wonder if anyone can help. My headset, a Logitech H800, is listed three times in System Preferences/audio/output. This headset does have two modes - bluetooth and wireless - but I'm not sure why that should result in *three* entries. The first issue is it would be really nice if Mac could automatically start using the headset when I connect it, (after telling it to connect to Mac if applicable) but this doesn't happen. Any way to make that happen? Secondly, conversely to the OS, I like to set Voiceover to use the headset manually. THis is because I like to verify the headset is functioning before Voiceover tries to use it otherwise I get silence. However, a couple of times I forgot which of the three Logitech entries to choose from available options for audio output in Voiceover Utility. I realised straight away that I chose the wrong one because VO went silent. I thought this wouldn't be a problem because it's meant to revert to the previous setting if you don't hit the confirm button. But it didn't revert. So I was left with no audio and not enough memory/confidence to try and set it back to built-in output without speech. I switched off the computer and hoped that when I restarted, if I disconnected the headset,it would revert but it didn't. I got speech in the log-on screen but none after that. After about 5 times switching on and off again speech came back to the built-in output. But obviously this was very frustrating and time-consuming. Similarly sometimes I have been silly enough to forget to tell VO to stop using the headset before pulling out the dongle. Then, even if I stick it back in again, I lose speech. A message appears on screen saying Mac can't connect to the headset and I need to hit "stop using headset" or similar before audio comes out of the speakers again. I wish and hope there was some way for Mac to automatically give up on using an audio device after a certain amount of time. In this respect I much prefer Windows behaviour which simply stops using it when I disconnect. All the problems I'm having could be solved if it just started using it when connected and stopped when disconnected. Is there any way of setting up a hot key or something to force all audio to revert back to built-in output? Any other suggestions as to what I can do in these situations? Obviously if I had a braille display connected that would help, but I can't get my Braillenote Apex to work with VO - that's another story. Any suggestions gratefully received. Thanks, Catherine -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
