On Sun, 2016-09-11 at 15:31 +0800, Kai Hendry wrote: > In pavucontrol I can see the levels of my microphone; > http://s.natalian.org/2016-09-11/levels.mp4 > > That reading I hope is all I need for my noise monitoring system. > > How do I get values of my levels from some cli tool like pamix or pactl? > > I know I could do this with gstreamer, but I find it very hairy. > https://www.youtube.com/edit?video_id=PHKpVJ0rSRw We don't provide ready-made tools for that. Pavucontrol captures the audio like any other audio recording application (except it uses very low sample rate and requests a special "peaks" resampler that inverts negative sample values to positive). There's no "get one sample now" feature in pulseaudio, you have to set up a recording stream in one way or another. --Â Tanu
