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I am playing around with Power Automate Desktop. I'm trying to write an automation that will change the default audio output device depending upon the current device. For example, if the current device is the headset, I want to switch to the speaker and vice vera.

I recorded pressing <Windows>+<CTRL>+V to open the Quick Settings for the sound output

What I am having a problem with is getting the "Selected" value from the UI element which I should be able to use to tell what the currently active device is.

It looks like there are only a limited number of attributes available from the "Get details of the UI element in window". Is there any way for me to get the attribute that I need?

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Get attributes of a desktop UI element

There doesn't seem to be "Selected" attribute in the "Get details of the UI element in window" as you pointed out. Here is a list of what attributes you can check with it (more than just the 4 that action gives by default): https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/power-automate/desktop-flows/how-to/extract-attributes-window-elements

You can use "Get selected checkboxes in window" -action. I tested and that is able to see if the audio device is selected or not. Use "Get state of checkbox" operation.

So the flow would look something like this: