Dear Matt I have full access to the machine, ( i install it for my wife and kid). Sadly i dont know how do ssh with X forwarding. So i go for pactl. user@kid > pactl no valid comand user@kid > pactl Big big list of things. i get some of sucess doing: pactl set-sink-volume 0 32768 There are some tool more friendly that pactl, with look similar to alsamixer or etc? Best Regards Christian On Tuesday 19 January 2021 15:53:03 Matt Garman wrote: > If you can login as your child (i.e., same user account as him) on his > Linux system (ssh with X forwarding), then you should be able to run > "pavucontrol". Loosely speaking, pavucontrol is to Pulse Audio as > alsamixer is to ALSA. It's a GUI app. I'm not sure if there exists a > strictly text equivalent of pavucontrol. > > There is also a commandline tool call "pactl". This would allow you > to control the Pulse Audio daemon on your child's computer without a > GUI (though there is a bit of a learning curve). > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 12:13 PM Christian Schmitz <list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi everyone: > > > > I am in the office with my computer ( Linux tumbleweed), and my kid of 3 > > years old is in another computer showing videos from youtube. Both > > computer have a normal user sound configuration ( each computer playing > > their own sound). > > > > Some videos are quieter and another are very loudness. With my first kid > > (10 years back) i do: > > 1)SSH as root > > 2)amixer and upper or lower the volume. > > > > Now i cant find a way to do this with pulseaudio. If i do > > 1)I do ssh as root successfully > > 2) > > 2.1) # amixer > > ALSA lib pulse.c:242:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: > > Connection refused > > > > 2.2) # alsamixer > > ALSA lib pulse.c:242:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: > > Conexión negada (Connection refused in spanish) > > > > > > 2.3) if i do sudo to the same linux user that is showing the video: > > > > user@computer> amixer > > XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (/run/user/0) is not owned by us (uid 1001), but by uid > > 0! (This could e.g. happen if you try to connect to a non-root PulseAudio > > as a root user, over the native protocol. Don't do that.) > > ALSA lib pulse.c:242:(pulse_connect) PulseAudio: Unable to connect: > > Connection refused > > > > How i can control the sound volume of my kid from my computer? > > > > Thanks all > > Christian Schmitz > > > > -- > > Be Free, Be Linux > > _______________________________________________ > > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > > pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > pulseaudio-discuss mailing list > pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss -- Be Free, Be Linux _______________________________________________ pulseaudio-discuss mailing list pulseaudio-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pulseaudio-discuss
