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silvhr

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Registered: 2023-02-06

Posts: 2

Microphone issues on pipewire (pipewire-pulse)

I migrated from using PulseAudio to pipewire (with pipewire-pulse) and now my microphone, which previously worked with PulseAudio does not take any input.

systemctl --user status pipewire

● pipewire.service - PipeWire Multimedia Service
     Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/user/pipewire.service; enabled; preset: enabled)
     Active: active (running) since Mon 2023-02-06 17:04:15 CST; 55min ago
TriggeredBy: ● pipewire.socket
   Main PID: 5043 (pipewire)
      Tasks: 2 (limit: 19005)
     Memory: 15.9M
        CPU: 19.967s
     CGroup: /user.slice/user-1000.slice/user@1000.service/session.slice/pipewire.service
             └─5043 /usr/bin/pipewire

Feb 06 17:04:15 nt systemd[917]: Started PipeWire Multimedia Service.
Feb 06 17:04:46 nt pipewire[5043]: spa.alsa: hw:1: snd_pcm_start: Broken pipe
Feb 06 17:04:46 nt pipewire[5043]: spa.audioadapter: 0x560e6c21b098: can't send command 2: Broken pipe
Feb 06 17:04:46 nt pipewire[5043]: pw.node: (alsa_input.usb-DCMT_Technology_USB_Condenser_Microphone_214b206000000178-00.mono-fallback-43) suspended -> error (Start error: Broken pipe)

The output for wp-ctl status:

PipeWire 'pipewire-0' [0.3.65, silvhr@nt, cookie:220524453]
 └─ Clients:
        31. libcanberra                         [0.3.65, silvhr@nt, pid:2063]
        32. libcanberra                         [0.3.65, silvhr@nt, pid:2658]
        33. WirePlumber                         [0.3.65, silvhr@nt, pid:5047]
        34. WirePlumber [export]                [0.3.65, silvhr@nt, pid:5047]
        53. qpwgraph                            [0.3.65, silvhr@nt, pid:4885]
        54. WEBRTC VoiceEngine                  [0.3.65, silvhr@nt, pid:5260]
        55. Chromium input                      [0.3.65, silvhr@nt, pid:5299]
        56. Firefox                             [0.3.65, silvhr@nt, pid:1531]
        62. PulseAudio Volume Control           [0.3.65, silvhr@nt, pid:7203]
        88. Firefox                             [0.3.65, silvhr@nt, pid:1531]
        89. wpctl                               [0.3.65, silvhr@nt, pid:14122]

Audio
 ├─ Devices:
 │      40. GP107GL High Definition Audio Controller [alsa]
 │      41. USB Condenser Microphone            [alsa]
 │      42. Built-in Audio                      [alsa]
 │  
 ├─ Sinks:
 │  *   44. Built-in Audio Analog Stereo        [vol: 0.77]
 │  
 ├─ Sink endpoints:
 │  
 ├─ Sources:
 │      43. USB Condenser Microphone Mono       [vol: 1.00]
 │      45. Built-in Audio Analog Stereo        [vol: 1.00]
 │  
 ├─ Source endpoints:
 │  
 └─ Streams:
        57. Firefox                                                     
             58. output_FL       > ALC221 Analog:playback_FL	[init]
             59. output_FR       > ALC221 Analog:playback_FR	[init]
        63. PulseAudio Volume Control                                   
             69. input_FL        < ALC221 Analog:monitor_FL	[active]
             70. monitor_FL     
             71. input_FR        < ALC221 Analog:monitor_FR	[active]
             72. monitor_FR     
        64. PulseAudio Volume Control                                   
             67. input_MONO      < USB Condenser Microphone:capture_MONO	[active]
             68. monitor_MONO   
        65. PulseAudio Volume Control                                   
             73. input_FL        < ALC221 Analog:capture_FL	[active]
             74. monitor_FL     
             75. input_FR        < ALC221 Analog:capture_FR	[active]
             76. monitor_FR     
        66. PulseAudio Volume Control                                   
             82. input_FL        < Firefox:output_FL	[init]
             83. monitor_FL     
             84. input_FR        < Firefox:output_FR	[init]
             85. monitor_FR     
        90. PulseAudio Volume Control                                   
             91. input_FL        < Firefox:output_FL	[paused]
             92. monitor_FL     
             93. input_FR        < Firefox:output_FR	[paused]
             94. monitor_FR     
        95. Firefox                                                     
             97. output_FR       > ALC221 Analog:playback_FR	[paused]
             99. output_FL       > ALC221 Analog:playback_FL	[paused]

Video
 ├─ Devices:
 │  
 ├─ Sinks:
 │  
 ├─ Sink endpoints:
 │  
 ├─ Sources:
 │  
 ├─ Source endpoints:
 │  
 └─ Streams:

Settings
 └─ Default Configured Node Names:
         1. Audio/Source  alsa_output.pci-0000_00_1b.0.analog-stereo

Any other suggestions on what logs/commands I should post would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

jl2

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Registered: 2022-06-01

Posts: 1,248

Re: Microphone issues on pipewire (pipewire-pulse)

Habe you installed wireplumber(or pipewire-media-session), as stated in the pipewire wiki page?

Last edited by jl2 (2023-02-07 07:45:49)

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silvhr

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Registered: 2023-02-06

Posts: 2

Re: Microphone issues on pipewire (pipewire-pulse)

Yes wp is installed. From my limited research/understanding it seems that there is no driver support for my microphone on pipewire? Hopefully someone with more technical knowledge will be able to assist me.