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Thanks for your suggestion!
I will add this to the next update after 1.6. For this to work, I have to rework my "was already muted by the user"-detection (which is getting quite complicated in light of #4), and rework the audio device detection.
It will be a while when I come around to adding it, but I will (I have also multiple endpoints on my PC, so it will be easy to test :) )
Would this issue explain why WinMute is not working for me on a laptop that uses thunderbolt dock? It works great on my desktop PC at home, but a laptop that I keep docked at work doesn't seem to work at all. I can activate it and even manually mute the system, but as soon as a Skype call or Slack notification comes through the system unmutes? I did set the Thunderbolt dock as the default audio device and it didn't seem to have any effect.
I can activate it and even manually mute the system, but as soon as a Skype call or Slack notification comes through the system unmutes?
I think those apps may unmute your system when they receive an incoming call.
For skype, you can configure this behaviour in Settings > Audio and Video > Unmute for incoming calls
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I wonder if this setting is enabled in your skype installation.
I never noticed that setting before! The laptop in question had it turned on and my desktop had it disabled. This certainly explains why I saw it unmuting even when the laptop was unlocked and I would manually mute via WinMute. I disabled that Skype setting and the manual Mute persisted while unlocked and receiving an incoming call from Skype.
However, when I locked the system, an incoming Skype call would still ring.
So I tried some testing and disabled the setting "Restore volume when returning" to see if the issue was that Winmute was simply not triggering the mute on locking. I locked the screen and then unlocked and it was still unmuted.
Then I exited and relaunched WinMute, Locked and Unlocked and the system remained muted. If I re-enable "Restore volume when returning", it doesn't work on the next screen Lock unless I quite/restart WinMute. I replicated this behavior on both my laptop and desktop system.
Is there an issue where Winmute has to be closed and relaunched after a settings change?
That sounds... strange. I will try to recreate it
Sorry for not being very responsive right now. A month ago I started a new job which keeps me really busy. I want to make a bigger revision of WinMute soon™, that includes some of the requests that have been written here, as well as log file option to (hopefully) better understand whats going on in some cases.
Muting all endpoints is now available with WinMute 1.9.9 (This is a pre-release version for 2.0). If you want, you can try it here: https://github.com/lx-s/WinMute/releases/tag/1.9.9.1
It seems WinMute only mutes the master volume of the primary output device. Would it be possible to extend this to all output devices?
I use my laptop's speakers as primary output. When I lock the device, WinMute correctly mutes this output. However, my headset still rings when a Skype or Teams call comes in. It's a Plantronics USB headset and it shows up as a different device in Windows. It is used only for calls.