'Twas brillig, and Ng Oon-Ee at 24/02/11 12:07 did gyre and gimble: > Hi all, > > It seems the only way to achieve the above would be to script the > following:- > > 1. Obtain the default device using pacmd list-sinks | grep "*" or > similar > 2. Get that device's current volume using some multi-line parsing of > pacmd list-sinks or pacmd info (output in %) > 3. Convert the given % to the hex input expected by pacmd > set-sink-volume > 4. Actually set the new volume > > Is there an easier way to do this? pacmd isn't really VERY > script-friendly. To be fair that's probably not its purpose, I guess, > but it would be nice if Pulse as a Linux app was as scriptable as most > older Linux apps. > > Alternatively, is there a 'shortcut' dbus method to do the above? > > And yes, of course I could just use gnome volume control, not all > systems have gnome installed though (I'm looking at getting it off my > system actually, since I stopped using the DE itself). When alsa redirection is available I find that "amixer set Master +5%" works fine :D But it would be nice to have a simple cmd-line tool that did some basic tasks more easily... e.g. change volume of the default or a given sink, changed the volume of a given stream, changed the device of a given stream list the devices, list the streams. If it did all this in a "consume from script" friendly kind of way, then I'd happily include it and ship it with PA as it's something that does crop up fairly often. Patches welcome :D Col -- Colin Guthrie gmane(at)colin.guthr.ie http://colin.guthr.ie/ Day Job: Tribalogic Limited [http://www.tribalogic.net/] Open Source: Mageia Contributor [http://www.mageia.org/] PulseAudio Hacker [http://www.pulseaudio.org/] Trac Hacker [http://trac.edgewall.org/]
