[pulseaudio-discuss] pacmd ignores PULSE_SERVER env var

[Tudor Zaharia]

Hi Sean,

Thank you for the confirmation about pacmd ignoring PULSE_SERVER env var!

I want to update a source's proplist and afaik pactl cannot do that.

// this is what I want to do
$ pacmd update-source-proplist mysource.monitor device.description=foo

with PULSE_SERVER pointing to a different socket than the default one (i.e. something else than unix:/tmp/pulse-socket)

Best regards,
Tudor

From: pulseaudio-discuss <pulseaudio-discuss-bounces at lists.freedesktop.org> on behalf of Sean Greenslade <sean at seangreenslade.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 9, 2022 4:52 PM
To: General PulseAudio Discussion <pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] pacmd ignores PULSE_SERVER env var 
 
On Sun, Nov 06, 2022 at 07:02:03PM +0000, Tudor Zaharia wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Following this documentation page https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PulseAudio 
> I am setting the PULSE_SERVER env var to point to a pulseaudio server that runs inside a docker container.
> 
> Unfortunately the "pacmd" command seems to ignore this env var and query instead the local machine. Am I doing something wrong? Is this the expected behavior?
> pactl command works as expected though.
> 
> $ pacmd --ver
> pacmd 13.99.1
> Compiled with libpulse 13.99.0
> Linked with libpulse 13.99.0

As a brief (but hopefully helpful) answer, I can confirm that pacmd
indeed ignores PULSE_SERVER. pactl, on the other hand, respects
PULSE_SEVER. Are you able to use pactl instead?

--Sean