[pulseaudio-tickets] [PulseAudio] #214: Ability to change sinks volumes from CLI on runtime

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#214: Ability to change sinks volumes from CLI on runtime
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 Reporter:  valoun                            |       Owner:  lennart
     Type:  enhancement                       |      Status:  new    
 Priority:  normal                            |   Milestone:         
Component:  clients                           |    Severity:  normal 
 Keywords:  volume, batch, command-line, CLI  |  
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 Hi,

 I haven't found a way to change volume from command-line (in a non-
 interactive way) for sinks. I need it to be able to attach volume scripts
 to my notebook buttons.

 "pulseaudio -nF" with commands fails with error:

 E: pid.c: Daemon already running.
 E: main.c: pa_pid_file_create() failed.

 Other programs like pactl, pavucontrol, paprefs etc. get no commandline
 options at all or do not offer the needed functions.

 So is there a way that I haven't found? Basically what I need is to issue
 commands like those offered with amixer i.e. volume up (with unmute),
 volume down, volume up by %, volume down by %, mute, unmute, toggle mute
 etc.

 Right now, I can only control PCM with amixer through pulse.

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