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. > >That said, as you are using a laptop this is not likely the best >approach. Better to use tunnels (with avahi for auto detection) as when >you resume your laptop from suspend when away from your "home network" >then you'll still have working sound. Basically just tick all the >relevant boxes in paprefs and things work by themselves. Make sure you >set up both sides tho'. > >Col Thank you for your help. What is the syntax used to specify "remotemachine"? I tried using the name as shown in padevchooser (export PULSE_SERVER=davem at ubuntu-DGTM). That did not work. I tried using tunnels and have the same problem. I can not find documentation showing what syntax I will use to format the command. I tried many variations on the following with no luck: $ pacmd set-default-sink tunnel.davem at ubuntu-DGTM.local,alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 $ pacmd set-default-sink tunnel.ubuntu-DGTM.local,alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 $ pacmd set-default-sink tunnel.ubuntu-DGTM,alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 $ pacmd set-default-sink tunnel.davem at ubuntu-DGTM.local So if you can give me some feedback or point me to some examples, that would be very helpful.
