On Tue, 2014-05-06 at 18:21 +0200, Fabrice Delente wrote: > 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 so the documentation is either out of date, or my system is broken 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...) Weird. When pulseaudio is compiled with d-bus support and it's being run in the per-user mode, it should take the org.PulseAudio1 bus name on the session bus (regardless of whether module-dbus-protocol is loaded or not), but the error sounds like the session bus has no service with name org.PulseAudio1. The example code works on my machine just fine. -- Tanu
