pulseaudio_device_control

A simple script to control PulseAudio devices. Mainly this is to easily cycle the default sink or source.

Installation

pulseaudio_device_control depends on pulsectl.

This package can be installed using pipx:

pipx install pulseaudio_device_control

Usage

pulseaudio_device_control OPERATION DEVICE_TYPE [AMOUNT]

Where:

• OPERATION is raise, lower, mute, or next
• DEVICE_TYPE is sink or source
• AMOUNT is a percentage value for the raise and lower operations (optional, defaults to 2)

When using next any device name ending with monitor is skipped.

Configuration

pulseaudio_device_control can be configured with a file located at ~/.config/pulseaudio_device_control/config.ini, e.g.

[next]
# Ignore devices from the next command (devices ending in "monitor" are always ignored)
sink_ignore = ["sink_name1", "sink_name2"]
source_ignore = ["source_name1", "source_name2"]

The names of PulseAudio sink/source devices can be printed with:

import pulsectl

pulse = pulsectl.Pulse()
print([sink.name for sink in pulse.sink_list()])
print([source.name for source in pulse.source_list()])