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 ‘/menu/settings/alerts’ if you have voice alerts enabled?
I usually have my voice alerts disabled, so there’s 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 there’s a chance we forgot to add this one. I’m gonna check.
Hi @rafael.lehmkuhl Voice alerts appear to be enabled, volume is up, nothing coming from the speakers
You got a bug!
I’ve tested here and it’s 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 through…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 (“artifacts”) from GitHub you need to be logged in, otherwise it will show you this 404.
In the meantime, I’ve 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. I’m back home so I will test with my deck before making a new release. Thanks for testing it.
Did you ever progress with this at all? I have put 1.18.2 on the steam deck and still no sound. I have however noticed something, which also shows in the video above, on the ‘/menu/settings/alerts’ page in Cockpit, there is no option for the voice, in the ‘Alert voice’ dropdown menu.
I did not have time yet to go back to this one 
I will talk to my colleague to see if he can work on this one while I’m working on the performance problems.
No worries @rafael.lehmkuhl and thank you - also apologies for putting so much up today 
Really not a problem Marcus!
User feedback is one of the most important things we have. And I’m specially happy when users get back to check on things that are still pending. It’s very common to see problems being raised and then the user disappearing, which a lot of times gets us stuck, which is very frustrating.
This SteamDeck case is something that is still in my follow-up list, I just didn’t get the time yet to work on yet, but I will do soon 
Any progress with this?
We got back working on this and will have a Beta including the fix this week.
Thanks for the patience and sorry for the long waiting time Marcus
@3dMB we just released Cockpit 1.19.0-beta.8 with the fix included 
Thank you @rafael.lehmkuhl 
