[pulseaudio-discuss] Choose remote default sink fromcommandline?

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Dave at 09/11/10 03:26 did gyre and gimble:
> At 04:25 AM 11/8/2010, you wrote:
>> 'Twas brillig, and Dave at 08/11/10 02:21 did gyre and gimble:
>> > At 01:56 PM 11/7/2010, you wrote:
>> >> 'Twas brillig, and Dave at 07/11/10 14:48 did gyre and gimble:
>> >> > I use the Pulseaudio Device Chooser to set the default sink (on a
>> >> > laptop) to a remote server. This works fine. When i reboot my
>> laptop,
>> >> > the default sink reverts back to "default" (the laptop sound card).
>> >> >
>> >> > Is there a way to get the laptop to continue to use the remote
>> server
>> >> > after a reboot? Is there a command that I can run in a script on
>> >> > startup to change the default sink back to the remote server?
>> >> >
>> >> > I am running Ubuntu 9.04 on this machine.
>> >>
>> >> padevchooser doesn't work in the nicest way possible. We've been
>> openly
>> >> telling people it's deprecated for some years now!
>> >>
>> >> Anyway, you can do something like: "export PULSE_SERVER=remotemachine"
>> >> in your .bashrc file.
>> >>
>> >> This will bypass your local PA completely on any ever use a remote
>> >> server.
> 
> I tried adding each of the following (one at a time of course) to
> ~/.bashrc and none of these variations worked:
> 
> export PULSE_SERVER=192.168.1.64

This is the only form you need. I presume you logged out and back in
again after setting this env var?

Try this on the command line and post the results:

export PULSE_SERVER=192.168.1.64
export PULSE_LOG=99
paplay -vvv /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav

(in the last command you may need to pick your own wav file if that one
does not exist).

The debug output from that should help to pinpoint where the problem lies.


Col


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