[pulseaudio-discuss] Signals from PA dbus interface

[Tanu Kaskinen]

On Sat, 2017-02-18 at 18:17 +0200, Tanu Kaskinen wrote:
> On Fri, 2017-02-17 at 03:07 -0500, Paul Stone wrote:
> > Hoping someone with more familiarity can shed some light or point me in the
> > direction of the information I'm looking for.  The basic problem is I'm
> > having problems capturing a profile change signal from PA via dbus using
> > Gio with CJS/GJS.
> > 
> > I had posted this issue to stackoverflow a while back without a nibble (has
> > the problem overview with sample code):
> > http://stackoverflow.com/questions/40443118/getting-profile-change-signal-from-the-pulseaudio-dbus-interface
> > 
> > The skeleton code there will pickup port changes easily enough but I can't
> > seem to grab a profile change.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any info.
> 
> I added some extra logging to the daemon, and it looks like the signal
> is not sent. So this is a pulseaudio bug.
> 
> Hopefully you already knew this, but the dbus interface in pulseaudio
> isn't really suitable for any serious projects. See the disclaimer at
> the top of
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/Developer/Clients/DBus/
> 
> Nevertheless, I'll try to fix this bug.

Patch submitted:
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/139812/

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