On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 12:46 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote: > '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 > This would have to be part of pacmd or separate? I thought this is what pactl was supposed to be for, but it seems development on that just stopped. And yes I forgot I had alsa's ctl bound to hardware, that would be a workaround. I still think PA should have something to cater to the commandline, but yes it would need code of course. I may look into it once I graduate...
