Fedora 33 - wireless bluetooth mic issue

I am unable to use a bluetooth microphone (as input, built into a wireless headset), but the speakers (as output, built into a wireless headset) do work. Could someone shed some light for how to configure bluetooth on Fedora 33 to enable both input and output to work on it? Here is some useful information:

Sound card in use:
~ » pactl list | grep -C20 A2DP
Part of profile(s): HiFi
[In] Mic1: Digital Microphone (type: Mic, priority: 100, latency offset: 0 usec, availability unknown)
Part of profile(s): HiFi

Card #3
Name: bluez_card.4C_20_B8_23_40_3C
Driver: module-bluez5-device.c
Owner Module: 24
Properties:
device.description = “headset”
device.string = “4C:20:B8:23:40:3C”
device.api = “bluez”
device.class = “sound”
device.bus = “bluetooth”
device.form_factor = “headphone”
bluez.path = “/org/bluez/hci0/dev_4C_20_B8_23_40_3C”
bluez.class = “0x240418”
bluez.alias = “headset”
device.icon_name = “audio-headphones-bluetooth”
Profiles:
a2dp_sink: High Fidelity Playback (A2DP Sink) (sinks: 1, sources: 0, priority: 40, available: yes)
headset_head_unit: Headset Head Unit (HSP/HFP) (sinks: 1, sources: 1, priority: 30, available: no)
off: Off (sinks: 0, sources: 0, priority: 0, available: yes)
Active Profile: a2dp_sink
Ports:
headphone-output: Headphone (type: Headphones, priority: 0, latency offset: 0 usec, available)
Part of profile(s): a2dp_sink, headset_head_unit
headphone-input: Bluetooth Input (type: Bluetooth, priority: 0, latency offset: 0 usec, not available)
Part of profile(s): headset_head_unit

bluetoothctl using MAC address:
$ bluetoothctl info 4C:20:B8:23:40:3C
Device 4C:20:B8:23:40:3C (public)
Name: headset
Alias: headset
Class: 0x00240418
Icon: audio-card
Paired: yes
Trusted: yes
Blocked: no
Connected: no
LegacyPairing: no
UUID: Service Discovery Serve… (00001000-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Audio Sink (0000110b-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: A/V Remote Control Target (0000110c-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Advanced Audio Distribu… (0000110d-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: A/V Remote Control (0000110e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Handsfree (0000111e-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: PnP Information (00001200-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb)
UUID: Vendor specific (74ec2172-0bad-4d01-8f77-997b2be0722a)
Modalias: bluetooth:v004Cp200Ed611B

This is running on a Dell Latitude laptop as well.

Welcome to ask fedora @kyte

I know from own experiences that audio inclusive mic is a bit a tricky thing. Not just in fedora i always had troubles with my desktop and with my dell notebook.

On Fedora 34 where is not so far away I had a pleasant experience. See here:
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/mic-not-working-on-hp-elitebook-fedora-33/76393/3?u=ilikelinux

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