I used a Steam Deck for the first time yesterday. The platform was truly great, but Cockpit sound notifications were missing. Using fresh install of latest stable version of cockpit.
Is there a setting either in Cockpit, or on the Steam Deck I need to apply?
Hey Marcus! Glad that you liked it.
Can you check on ā/menu/settings/alertsā if you have voice alerts enabled?
I usually have my voice alerts disabled, so thereās a chance that this is actually broken in the SteamDeck build and we never noticed. The FlatPak is a sandboxed type of image and every permission has to be set explicitly during build time, so thereās a chance we forgot to add this one. Iām gonna check.
Hi @rafael.lehmkuhl Voice alerts appear to be enabled, volume is up, nothing coming from the speakers
You got a bug!
Iāve tested here and itās not working as well.
Did some investigation and we do need to explicitly set permissions for speech in Flatpak.
I will open a PR tomorrow fixing that for the next 1.18 beta.
@3dMB can you check your SteamOS version (Steam button, settings, system, OS version)?
OS version 3.7.21
OS Build 20260414.1
BIOS Version F7G0112
Correction - just had update come throughā¦now using:
OS Version 3.7.22
OS Build 20260430.1
Still no sound notifications
Perfect. This version of SteamOS (3.7.13 and above) include the text-to-speech libraries that we need.
Download and install this Cockpit build and tell me if it fixes the problem.
To be able to download temporary releases (āartifactsā) from GitHub you need to be logged in, otherwise it will show you this 404.
In the meantime, Iāve uploaded the file to a Google Drive and you can download it here.
alas still no sound
Humn, ok, I will have to investigate a little more. Iām back home so I will test with my deck before making a new release. Thanks for testing it.
