----- Original Message ----- > From: Tanu Kaskinen <tanu.kaskinen at linux.intel.com> > To: John <da_audiophile at yahoo.com> > Cc: "pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org" <pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org> > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2014 3:52 AM > Subject: Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Need a way to check when start-pulseaudio-x11 fully initialized > > On Tue, 2014-08-12 at 15:08 -0700, John wrote: > >> I need use something to query /usr/bin/pulseaudio and to ask it if it >> is fully initialized.? Right now, starting xbmc in stand-alone mode >> through a systemd service causes xbmc to start before pulse-audio is >> fully initialized which results in xbmc not being able to see all of >> the audio devices on the system.? Can someone suggest a method that >> will basically return an exit code of 0 when PA is initialized and a >> non-0 code when it is not ready? > > What devices XBMC doesn't see? Currently alsa devices are loaded > synchronously during startup, and client connections are not served > until the startup is complete. This means that clients should see all > alsa devices no matter when they connect, because their queries won't be > served until the startup is complete. Bluetooth devices are a different > matter, because they're not loaded synchronously. My system has three devices on it. If I modify /usr/bin/xbmc-standalone to more or less look like the following, all three of the audio sources are detected by xbmc: ? /usr/bin/start-pulseaudio-x11 ? sleep 6s ? /usr/bin/xbmc --standalone If I do not have that "sleep 6s" line in there, only the first device is detected, but it is the one I don't want to use :( It will be obvious to you in the logs: 1) Link to xbmc.log started WITH the 6sec delay (i.e. works fine): https://gist.github.com/graysky2/25ff0f511945d25e15d8 2) Link to xbmc.log started WITHOUT the 6sec delay (i.e. not all devices are detected): https://gist.github.com/graysky2/65ba59602d4b3f31160f > Also, it sounds like XBMC doesn't handle hotplugged audio devices? Is > that really so? I do not know :/
