Well, thanks for your answer Georg, It was really nice of you to respond because I really felt miserable here and you truly helped me. First of all, in order to make sure `pulseaudio` is really functional without X and in system mode, using `paplay` did it. My problem was that I didn't really expected sound to come from the HDMI output, while I was connected to a monitor with the HDMI, I saw only one output sink with the name as when I had no HDMI connected and only the sink available was the 3.5 jack. It's not only that it had the same name, the name `alsa_output.platform-soc_audio.analog-mono` so I was sure the name referred to the analog 3.5 jack output. It seems as if there's some kind of hardware limitation for the Raspberry-Pi that doesn't enable multiple output sinks to be available for programs above the kernel like ALSA and pulseaudio at once. Oh and just for the record - for anyone who will read this in the future: This can be done using a bare tty, an attached tmux session (invoked from a tty) and from an ssh session, it doesn't matter. Oh and I did had to review again this document: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/Network/ Because I forgot to load `module-esound-protocol-tcp`. Thanks again Georg. On Wed, Jan 03, 2018 at 10:30:07AM +0100, Georg Chini wrote: > On 03.01.2018 00:44, Doron Behar wrote: > > Bump > > > > On Thu, Dec 28, 2017 at 11:34:29AM +0200, Doron Behar wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > > I'm trying for a while now to run pulseaudio on my Raspberry-Pi 3 and > > > I can't get it to work. I posted a question with a lot of details on > > > stackexchange.com: > > > > > > https://raspberrypi.stackexchange.com/q/76871/78180 > > What you describe there is not about using PA as a network sink. > Did you read > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/ > Have you created the necessary user and groups and added > the local user to the pulse-access group? > > Also, you should start PA really as root. The sudo command > you give further down will pass the user environment to the > daemon. So "su - root" (not simply "su root") and then start > PA instead of using sudo. > To test your setup, please use paplay instead of aplay. aplay > is an alsa tool. > > > > > > > As I said there, I have installed `omxplayer`. It works, proving my > > > hardware is totally OK. > > > > > > I want to eventually plug my Raspberry-Pi into electricity and to be able > > > to add a network sink from a different computer with a command like this > > > running on the local machine: > > > > > > ``` > > > pacmd load-module module-tunnel-sink server=archpi > > > ``` > > > > > > I'm pretty sure that eventually the way to do this involves having an > > > enabled systemd service that will run `pulseaudio --daemonize=false > > > --system=true`. > > > > > > Here is what I've tried so far: > > > > > > I've tried to test this with `sudo pulseaudio --system=true -vv > > > --daemonize=false` on a user session. > > See above. > > > > > > > I also made sure the file `/etc/pulse/system.pa` on the remote machine has > > > the following lines: > > > > > > ```pa > > > load-module module-native-protocol-tcp auth-ip-acl=127.0.0.1;192.168.14.0/24 auth-anonymous=true > > > load-module module-zeroconf-publish > > > load-module module-zeroconf-discover > > > ``` > > You do not need module-zeroconf-discover on the remote side, only on the > client side. > Did you check that 192.168.14.0/24 is the correct network for you? > Do you have the avahi daemon running on client and server? Do you need it at > all? > From what you are writing above, I guess that auto discovery is not > necessary in your > setup. Then you don't need avahi (at least not for PA) and the zeroconf > modules. > On the client machine, you should only need to do something like: > > pacmd load-module module-tunnel-sink server=192.168.x.y > sink_name=remote_sink sink="the name of the sink on the remote machine" > > Replace server= and sink= with the appropriate values for your setup. > > Then you should see a sink "remote_sink" on your client. > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss at lists.freedesktop.org > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
