# Installing a mute button on picroft?
**URL:** https://community.openconversational.ai/t/installing-a-mute-button-on-picroft/12576
**Category:** Feedback / Support
**Created:** [October 11, 2022, 4:13am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/installing-a-mute-button-on-picroft/12576 "2022-10-11T04:13:43Z")
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### Author:  [@derekantrican](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/derekantrican)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2022, 4:13am UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/installing-a-mute-button-on-picroft/12576/1 "2022-10-11T04:13:44Z")
Has anyone tried to install a mute button on picroft? I’ve thought about connecting a button to GPIO pins or even just wiring the button into the headphone jack so that it just connects/disconnects the speaker. Thoughts?
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### Author:  [@edmw](https://community.openconversational.ai/u/edmw)
#### Post date: [August 6, 2023, 6:05pm UTC](https://community.openconversational.ai/t/installing-a-mute-button-on-picroft/12576/2 "2023-08-06T18:05:17Z")
I can offer a suggestion about a “mute button”.
I use the microphone in a USB headset for the Picroft mic (I don’t use the headset speakers).
This headset has a mic mute button built in to the cable. While using mycroft-desktop-client, the mic volume zeros out when I push that mute button.
I also use a powered speaker that Picroft plays through. If I wish to silence the Picroft, I turn off the powered speaker.
I hope this helps.