I found this in the doc (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/Developer/Clients/DBus/ConnectingToServer/) ------------------------------------------------------ When a client wants to connect to a server, it reads the $PULSE_DBUS_SERVER environment variable, which contains a server address or a list of addresses, as specified in the D-Bus Specification, section Server Addresses. The client should be able to use the string directly as the address parameter of the underlying D-Bus library's connect function. If $PULSE_DBUS_SERVER is not set, the client reads the Address property (part of the org.PulseAudio.ServerLookup1 interface) of object /org/pulseaudio/server_lookup1. The destination of the call is org.PulseAudio1. ------------------------------------------------------ I don't have PULSE_DBUS_SERVER set in my environment, and I can't read anything on the bus, so I'm stuck... I tried the python code given on the wiki page, but I get dbus.exceptions.DBusException: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name org.PulseAudio1 was not provided by any .service files so the documentation is either out of date, or my system is broken (though all my audio goes through pulseaudio without problem...)
