Before I get into all the details of my script, etc., I would be very happy to use someone else's utility that does what I want, if it already exists. I want to click an icon and get results without having to navigate through a bunch of GUI menus every time. When it worked, I used this script many times a week, so I'd really like to get it working again. I cobbled together the attached script from posts on the Internet. It worked fine in 12.04, but is completely broken in 16.04 because the output of the commands it parses has changed, etc.. I do not understand any of the details of pulse audio. If attachments are a problem for the list, I can put it on Dropbox. I just don't want it to get mangled by things that reformat email messages. I have an icon in my KDE 5 panel which runs this script. When I click on it, I want it to detect if I have an HDMI device (TV or AV receiver) plugged in. If it is plugged in, I want it to switch my audio output (stereo) from my internal analog audio on my notebook (speakers or headphones) to HDMI audio. If the HDMI device is not detected, it should switch the audio output from HDMI to analog stereo on my notebook. Notes: The script tells me if the audio is already directed correctly. AFAIK, all my HDMI devices are the same. I just need to know if any one of them is attached, not which one or other details. I don't use anything other than stereo. Sometimes, when I attach an HDMI device, I don't want to run this script, so I just want it to run manually when I click on the icon. All of this worked on the old version before I upgraded my OS. I currently have HDMI audio as my first choice in system settings with analog as the second choice. I think that affects arguments to pulse audio commands. Any help would be appreciated. I am running KDE 5.18.0, Kubuntu 16.04 separately on a couple Toshiba notebooks with 64-bit Intel processors (i3 and i7). I have not modified pulse audio in any way. I'm moderately competent in bash and I know how to work with the desktop icon. All I need is to get the pulse audio part working again. Thanks. Joe -------------- next part -------------- #!/bin/bash ## audio_select ## Copyleft 08/11/2014 - JPmicrosystems ## Last modified 05/14/2015 ## If HDMI is connected, audio output is channelled to HDMI ## Otherwise it's channelled to internal audio ## From: https://askubuntu.com/questions/458194/switching-to-hdmi-audio-when-hdmi-is-plugged-into-a-laptop-14-04 ## Make a script name in SCRIPT_NAME function script_name { ## See if the calling script has a name string defined if [ -n "${NAME}" ] then SCRIPT_NAME="${NAME}" else SCRIPT_NAME="$(basename $0)" fi } ## Get active audio port type function get_active_audio_port { ## first very rough cut local ACTIVE_AUDIO_PORT_NAME RC=0 ## Success ACTIVE_AUDIO_PORT_NAME="$(pactl list | grep 'Active Port:' | awk '{print $3}')" case "${ACTIVE_AUDIO_PORT_NAME}" in "analog-output-speaker") ACTIVE_AUDIO_PORT="Speakers" ;; "analog-output-headphones") ACTIVE_AUDIO_PORT="Headphones" ;; "hdmi-output-0") ACTIVE_AUDIO_PORT="HDMI" ;; *) ACTIVE_AUDIO_PORT="Unknown" RC=1 ## Failure ;; esac return $RC } ##source "$HOME/bin/bash_trace" ## debug script_name HDMI_STATUS=$(cat /sys/class/drm/card0/*HDMI*/status) INPUTS=($(pacmd list-sink-inputs | grep index | awk '{print $2}')) DSPTIME=10 # yad message persistence time YOPT="--center --on-top --title ${SCRIPT_NAME}" # yad common options get_active_audio_port ## Find out where audio is going now if ((RC)) then yad ${YOPT} --info --button=gtk-ok:0 --text="Failed to detect current audio source" --width 250 --timeout=${DSPTIME} exit 1 fi if [ $HDMI_STATUS = "connected" ] then if [ "${ACTIVE_AUDIO_PORT}" == "HDMI" ] then yad ${YOPT} --info --button=gtk-ok:0 --text="Audio already set to HDMI" --width 250 --timeout=${DSPTIME} exit 1 fi pactl set-card-profile 0 output:hdmi-stereo pactl set-default-sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.hdmi-stereo for i in ${INPUTS[*]} do pacmd move-sink-input $i alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.hdmi-stereo &> /dev/null done yad ${YOPT} --info --button=gtk-ok:0 --text="Audio directed to HDMI" --width 250 --timeout=${DSPTIME} else if [ "${ACTIVE_AUDIO_PORT}" == "Speakers" ] || [ "${ACTIVE_AUDIO_PORT}" == "Headphones" ] then yad ${YOPT} --info --button=gtk-ok:0 --text="Audio already set to Analog Output" --width 250 --timeout=${DSPTIME} exit 1 fi pactl set-card-profile 0 output:analog-stereo pactl set-default-sink alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo for i in ${INPUTS[*]} do pacmd move-sink-input $i alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo &> /dev/null done yad ${YOPT} --info --button=gtk-ok:0 --text="Audio directed to Analog Output" --width 250 --timeout=${DSPTIME} fi
