forked from unom/punktfunk
enricobuehler
ef8214415f
The wiring plan reserved the mic target unconditionally first, so on a box without VB-Cable the mic took the Steam Streaming Microphone — the only working client-only loopback sink — and desktop audio fell to the known-silent Speakers last resort: a headless Steam-only host streamed SILENCE (the 2026-08 field case), and the installer's 'optional (mic passthrough)' wording never warned anyone. The mic may now hold the Streaming Microphone only while the loopback still gets a preferred (non-last-resort) pick without it — another silent sink or real hardware. Otherwise the loopback takes the endpoint and the mic falls to a lesser candidate or is honestly withheld (Wiring::mic_withheld), with the open error naming the trade and the remedy. An operator PUNKTFUNK_MIC_DEVICE override is exempt: an explicit choice may still strand the loopback on the last resort. Also: the Steam-pair auto-install latch is now once per INF-state instead of once per process — an attempt made while Steam was absent re-arms when its driver INFs later appear (files are invisible to the endpoint-set fingerprint, so nothing else would ever retry), and a withheld mic skips the pointless reinstall (the pair exists; the plan gave it to the loopback).