On Fri, Mar 06, 2020 at 06:33:11PM -0500, sean darcy wrote: > On 2/14/20 8:05 PM, sean darcy wrote: > > I'm trying to play music on a headless server, on which firefox will be > > playing a streaming channel. > > > > If I'm on the headless server all works well. > > > > But when I ssh into the server as the same user, nothing works. If I > > start pulseaudio: > > > > pulseaudio -D > > > > pa finds no sinks: > > > > pacmd list-sinks > > 1 sink(s) available. > > * index: 0 > > name: <auto_null> > > driver: <module-null-sink.c> > > ........... > > properties: > > device.description = "Dummy Output" > > device.class = "abstract" > > device.icon_name = "audio-card" > > > > This should be common use case. How do I set it up ? > > > > sean > > Maybe I asked this incorrectly. > > I'd like to ssh into a headless remote machine. Start a browser which shows > on my local machine. Use the browser to stream music, and I want the music > to play on the _remote_ machine. > > I'm surprised that this doesn't Just Work, but it doesn't. > > Any suggestions ? Any link to a howto ? > > Or is this the wrong mailing list for this question ? Hi, fellow Sean. Sorry for the super late reply, I had meant to send this earlier. There are a few ways of accomplishing this, depending on how your devices are arranged. I've personally done it like this: Machine A has the soundcard and speakers. Machine B is sourcing audio that I want to hear on Machine A. Both machines are on the same LAN. To do this, I enabled module-native-protocol-tcp on Machine A and synchronized the auth cookies on both machines. Finally, on Machine B, I ran commands with PULSE_SERVER=hostname-A set. You can see this page for a little more detail on networking pulseaudio: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#PulseAudio_over_network The other option is if you want to run everything on the same machine. For that, system-wide mode may be an option: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/PulseAudio/Documentation/User/SystemWide/ Alternatively, the Arch Wiki suggests doing something similar to the network audio setup but with unix sockets instead: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PulseAudio/Examples#Allowing_multiple_users_to_use_PulseAudio_at_the_same_time I've personally never tried either of the latter two, so I can't guarantee they'll work. Feel free to try any of these out, and if you're still having trouble getting a working setup, let us know. Good luck, --Sean _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
