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A pure wireplumber way to switch audio devices, no pactl (lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz)
submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz to c/linux@lemmy.ml
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wpctl set-default $(pw-dump | jaq -r '.[]|select(.type=="PipeWire:Interface:Node" and .info.props["media.class"]=="Audio/Sink")|[.id,.info.props["node.name"],.info.props["node.description"]]|@tsv' | awk -F'\t' -v d="$(wpctl inspect @DEFAULT_AUDIO_SINK@|awk -F'"' '/node.name/{print $2;exit}')" 'BEGIN{c="tofi --prompt-text \"Audio Device: \" --height 40% --width 40% --auto-accept-single true"}$2!=d&&$2!="easyeffects_sink"{a[$3]=$1;devs++;print $3|&c}END{if(devs>1){close(c,"to");c|&getline p;if(p!=""){print a[p];system("notify-send --urgency=low --icon=/run/current-system/sw/share/icons/Flat-Remix-Red-Dark/panel/audio-volume-high-symbolic.svg \""p"\" -h string:x-canonical-private-synchronous:sink-state")}}else if(devs==1){for(k in a){print a[k];system("notify-send --urgency=low --icon=/run/current-system/sw/share/icons/Flat-Remix-Red-Dark/panel/audio-volume-high-symbolic.svg \""k"\" -h string:x-canonical-private-synchronous:sink-state")}}}') >/dev/null && pw-play --volume=0.2 /run/current-system/sw/share/sounds/freedesktop/stereo/audio-volume-change.oga >/dev/null &!

there's probably a lot to improve here, took forever to get this working, did not do a cleanup pass, jfc this took forever, replace tofi with your menu of choice, thought people should have this.

wishlist: change the icon based on volume level

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why is there a --height/width in there? Are you controlling a GUI? And what is a .oga file?

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

That's tofi, the dmenu alternative I'm using, I set its height and width, the oga is a media file, that plays the same ding as a volume change so you know what sink you're playing from now.

feel free to replace tofi with dmenu or whatever

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah. I understood cli-only in "pure".

[–] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 3 points 2 weeks ago

you could make it cli only by replacing tofi with a cli menu