At 04:25 AM 11/8/2010, you wrote: >'Twas brillig, and Dave at 08/11/10 02:21 did gyre and gimble: > > 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. I tried adding each of the following (one at a time of course) to ~/.bashrc and none of these variations worked: export PULSE_SERVER=192.168.1.64 export PULSE_SERVER=192.168.1.64:4713 export PULSE_SERVER=tcp:192.168.1.64:4713 export PULSE_SERVER=tcp:192.168.1.64 export PULSE_SERVER=tcp:ubuntu-DGTM.gateway.2wire.net export PULSE_SERVER=ubuntu-DGTM.gateway.2wire.net Which of these (if any) looks correct? I can ping the IP address or the name and both are valid. Is there a log file that I can look at to see if there is an error or some other clue as to why this is not working? > >> > >> 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. It will work fine since this laptop is only used on the home network. >Basically just tick all the > >> relevant boxes in paprefs and things work by themselves. Make sure you > >> set up both sides tho'. I already have the laptop working with the server. So I assume that I have the server configured correctly. I have no problems getting my apps to stream audio to a sound card on a remote server. I am just looking for a way to set the default sink to the remote server (so the user does not have to select the remote server each time the laptop is rebooted). >Really what you aim for is for your tunnel sinks to appear along side >the local sinks in e.g. pavucontrol. If you can get this working (and it >really should just be a matter of ticking the boxes in paprefs and >ensuring firewalls are suitably open etc) then you're home free. You can >just move the application in question to the tunnel device. This works if I use padevchooser. I just make the remote server the default sink and it works. But I can not get the setting to remain after I reboot the laptop. It always reverts back to the laptops sound chip. When I mouseover the menu (on the laptop after I set it to use the remote server as the default sink) I get the following info regarding the sink on the remote server: Name: davem at ubuntu-DGTM: HDA Intel - ALC888 Analog Server: tcp:192.168.1.64:4713 ubuntu-DGTM.gateway.2wire.net Device: alsa_output.pci_8086_293e_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0 Thanks again for your help.
