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yorrd

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Registered: 2013-07-21

Posts: 71

Pulseaudio remote control

What I'm looking for is a way to control pulseaudio from my phone.

I love Pulseaudio Volume Control (the desktop app which lets you control each application's volume level). The best thing would be an android app which connects to pavu. I guess that's not going to happen anytime soon, so this is why I'm asking for alternatives here.

What I've been thinking of but haven't done because it's so clumsy:

- connect to my computer via vnc as a second screen and have pavucontrol run there
   --> not really elegant at all
- write my own android app and have it log in to my pc using ssh.
   --> well, this takes time. Last resort.

Remote controlling only my music player for example is NOT an option. I have many applications running which play sound and I want to mix them all together, not with an app for each one of these. I'm talking about
- being on teamspeak
- playing some music
- having system sounds
- and the occasional notification from somewhere
at the same time. Doing it manually is just not an option.

Thanks for any ideas!

runical

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2012-03-03

Posts: 896

Re: Pulseaudio remote control

A quick search did not turn up anything for andriod, but the wiki mentions a web front end that might help you get what you want: https://github.com/Siot/PaWebControl.

EDIT: You can also try setting up an programmable SSH client with defined commands for the most common use cases.

Last edited by runical (2015-04-03 11:31:02)

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yorrd

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Registered: 2013-07-21

Posts: 71

Re: Pulseaudio remote control

Thanks Somehow I didn't find the web interface. I'm using this successfully and will maybe upload an improved version onto github later on. Let me know if anyone of you is interested.

runical

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From: The Netherlands

Registered: 2012-03-03

Posts: 896

Re: Pulseaudio remote control

Please do, it sounds pretty useful (I'll be setting up a pulse audio based audio system soon)

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owain

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2009-08-24

Posts: 260

Re: Pulseaudio remote control

Another option: install pulseaudio-mixer-cli-git from the AUR, run it in a screen session and connect via SSH when needed.

siot

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Registered: 2009-11-10

Posts: 27

Re: Pulseaudio remote control

Oh!

I invite you to contribute to PaWebControl, I'm glad to see (late) it had some interest.