Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Problem: non-interactive pulseaudio ( headless )

2019-09-02 Thread Arun Raghavan
On Tue, 3 Sep 2019, at 12:13 AM, Brian Bulkowski wrote: > Thanks for the response, if you don't believe this is a good use, I > won't bother further. GStreamer, then. If you have something working with PulseAudio, it might make sense to keep it and maybe change incrementally rather than going

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Problem: non-interactive pulseaudio ( headless )

2019-09-02 Thread Brian Bulkowski
Thanks for the response, if you don't believe this is a good use, I won't bother further. GStreamer, then. Regards --- -brian On 9/1/2019 11:58 PM, Arun Raghavan wrote: Hey Brian, On Mon, 2 Sep 2019, at 11:45 AM, Brian Bulkowski wrote: Hey Arun, Thanks for responding. I usually point

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Problem: non-interactive pulseaudio ( headless )

2019-09-02 Thread Arun Raghavan
Hey Brian, On Mon, 2 Sep 2019, at 11:45 AM, Brian Bulkowski wrote: > Hey Arun, > > Thanks for responding. > > > I usually point folks to the sync-playback.c test that we have a starting > > point, but this is certainly less than ideal. > > "less than ideal" is quite the politeness. Let's

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Problem: non-interactive pulseaudio ( headless )

2019-09-02 Thread Brian Bulkowski
Hey Arun, Thanks for responding. I usually point folks to the sync-playback.c test that we have a starting point, but this is certainly less than ideal. "less than ideal" is quite the politeness. Let's see 1) it doesn't cover files, nor does it cover files of different types ( mp3 vs

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Problem: non-interactive pulseaudio ( headless )

2019-09-01 Thread Arun Raghavan
Hey Brian, Sorry about the lack of response on this. Just saw this now, and I'm glad you got things running. On Sun, 1 Sep 2019, at 5:18 AM, Brian Bulkowski wrote: > Here's what I learned: > > 1. PulseAudio paired with a Rapsberry Pi is an almost unbeatable choice > for art installations. The

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Problem: non-interactive pulseaudio ( headless )

2019-08-31 Thread Brian Bulkowski
Here's what I learned: 1. PulseAudio paired with a Rapsberry Pi is an almost unbeatable choice for art installations. The ability to attach many speakers over USB audio, the fact that there are no fans whatsoever, the fact that is can run any manner of high level software to control sound,

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Problem: non-interactive pulseaudio ( headless )

2019-08-29 Thread Brian Bulkowski
Hey, Not like people are jumping to help out but There seems to be a .service file floating around the internet which says the service type is "notify", which doesn't work. Getting to a more normal form of service file seems to get past the auth problems I was having. The next step was

Re: [pulseaudio-discuss] Problem: non-interactive pulseaudio ( headless )

2019-08-26 Thread Brian Bulkowski
Hi, I've tried a bunch of the online guides, and I find the following problem. I am running Debian Buster on a raspberry pi with pulseaudio 12.0 Note that I don't need to run as root. I just need to auto-start, and that usually requires running a service (systemd), and I've specified not

[pulseaudio-discuss] Problem: non-interactive pulseaudio ( headless )

2019-08-26 Thread Brian Bulkowski
Hi! Heaving read how bad headless is, and how it's "rarely" needed and may not work, I was a bit blase about running my interactive art installation from systemd. After all, systemd allows me to run as a user. When I run as a non-interactive user, I get a "pulseaudio can't connect", which