[pulseaudio-discuss] Need a way to check when start-pulseaudio-x11 fully initialized

[John]

I need use something to query /usr/bin/pulseaudio and to ask it if it is fully initialized.  Right now, starting xbmc in stand-alone mode through a systemd service causes xbmc to start before pulse-audio is fully initialized which results in xbmc not being able to see all of the audio devices on the system.  Can someone suggest a method that will basically return an exit code of 0 when PA is initialized and a non-0 code when it is not ready?

More context:
The main line in the systemd service file just starts up xinit via dbus-launch and loads up xbmc-standalone on a new tty:
  ExecStart = /usr/bin/xinit /usr/bin/dbus-launch --exit-with-session /usr/bin/xbmc-standalone -- :0 -nolisten tcp vt7


/usr/bin/xbmc-standalone is just a wrapper script that basically does this:
  /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11
  /usr/bin/xbmc --standalone

Thank you in advance for the suggestions!
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