On 16 January 2016 at 22:42, Michal Suchanek <hramrach at gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > On 15 January 2016 at 18:28, Ð?ежанкин Ð?ван <abyss.7 at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I wonder on how to set the sink's priority in PulseAudio. I want some >> devices to override others when they get connected. But the source code >> inspection shows that the priority is calculated by hardcoded heuristics and >> can't be modified from outside (cli, dbus, ...). Is it true, or do I miss >> something? > > There does not seem to be any setting for this. > > Also even when the priority is higher existing streams are not going > to be redirected. You either have to restart the application or use > some pulseaudio foo to redirect the stream by hand. > > So in the end you probably want the scripts that switch playback > between different sinks manually regardless of priority You can look at module-device-manager which does have a way to maintain per-device and per-role priorities for devices, and route based on this. -- Arun
