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bladesonfire

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From: California, USA

Registered: 2007-05-23

Posts: 44

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Add new device to Pipewire

I'm trying to replace PulseAudio with Pipewire. The built-in audio on my laptop is fine, but I cannot get my monitor's speakers to show up as a device. I have a laptop with a USB-C out to a dock and the monitor is connected to the dock using HDMI. When using PulseAudio, I could use `pacmd` to find the card information and eventually `pactl set-card-profile` to use it.

`aplay -l` shows the HDMI devices, but nothing connected to them. How do I add a new device?

➜  ~ pactl info
...
Server Name: PulseAudio (on PipeWire 0.3.21)
Server Version: 14.0.0
Default Sample Specification: float32le 2ch 48000Hz
Default Channel Map: front-left,front-right
Default Sink: alsa_output.pci-0000:00:1f.3.analog-stereo
Default Source: alsa_input.pci-0000:00:1f.3.analog-stereo
...

➜  ~ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 0: ALC3271 Analog [ALC3271 Analog]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 3: HDMI 0 [HDMI 0]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 7: HDMI 1 [HDMI 1]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 8: HDMI 2 [HDMI 2]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 9: HDMI 3 [HDMI 3]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 0: PCH [HDA Intel PCH], device 10: HDMI 4 [HDMI 4]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
card 1: Audio [Plugable TBT3-UDV Dock Audio], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio]
  Subdevices: 1/1
  Subdevice #0: subdevice #0

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

Posts: 21,743

Re: Add new device to Pipewire

You should be able to find them the same way, check pavucontrol and/or

pactl list cards
pactl list sinks