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#1 2023-08-01 09:16:04

prosteSebastian
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Putting cava into the waybar

Hi,
I'm using Hyprland and I'm curious if there's a way on how to put the 'cava' into the waybar, to display the music output.
It would be really nice, but i don't know if it's even possible.
Thanks for your time.

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#2 2023-08-01 09:54:36

dogknowsnx
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Re: Putting cava into the waybar

Hi, and welcome to the forums,

https://github.com/Alexays/Waybar/wiki/Module:-Cava

Btw, how did you install Arch Linux?

#3 2023-08-01 11:25:46

prosteSebastian
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Re: Putting cava into the waybar

Oh thanks, i din't find this one big_smile.
I installed arch using archinstall.
I tried to put the example config to .config/waybar/conifg.jsonc, the one showed on the git, but i got the warning:
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❯ wbr
[1] 2666
[2023-08-01 13:18:36.872] [info] Using configuration file /home/s/.config/waybar/config.jsonc
[2023-08-01 13:18:36.873] [info] Using CSS file /home/s/.config/waybar/style.css
[2023-08-01 13:18:36.886] [warning] module cava: Unknown module: cava
[2023-08-01 13:18:36.888] [info] Hyprland IPC starting
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I have cava installed and in temrinal it's working. Any idea what could be the issue?
Thanks for help

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#4 2023-08-01 11:26:13

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Re: Putting cava into the waybar

Moving to Newbie Corner.

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#5 2023-08-01 11:36:35

dogknowsnx
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Re: Putting cava into the waybar

Please post your 'config.jsonc' using [ code ][ /code ] tags (without spaces)

#6 2023-08-01 11:43:58

prosteSebastian
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Re: Putting cava into the waybar

{
    "layer": "top",
    "position": "top",
    "mod": "dock",
    "exclusive": true,
    "passthrough": false,
    "gtk-layer-shell": true,
    "height": 50,
    "modules-left": [
	"clock",
	"cpu",
	"memory",
	"cava",
	"wlr/workspaces"
    ],

    "modules-center": [
	"hyprland/window"
    ],
    "modules-right": [
	"network",
	"battery",
	"backlight",
	"pulseaudio",
	"pulseaudio#microphone",
	"tray"
    ],
    "hyprland/window": {
        "format": "{}"
    },

    "wlr/workspaces": {
        "disable-scroll": true,
        "all-outputs": true,
        "on-click": "activate",
        "persistent_workspaces": {
            "1": [],
            "2": [],
            "3": [],
            "4": [],
            "5": [],
            "6": [],
            "7": [],
            "8": [],
            "9": [],
            "10": []
        }
    },
    
    

    "tray": {
        "icon-size": 18,
        "spacing": 10
    },

    "clock": {
        "format": "{: %H:%M   %a, %b %e}",
        "tooltip-format": "<big>{:%Y %B}</big>\n<tt><small>{calendar}</small></tt>"
    },
   
    "cpu":{
	"format": " {usage}%",
	"on-click": "kitty -e htop",
	"interval": 5
    },
    "memory" : {
    	"interval": 1,
    	"format": " {}%"
    },
    "cava": {
//        "cava_config": "$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/cava/cava.conf",
        "framerate": 30,
        "autosens": 1,
        "sensitivity": 100,
        "bars": 14,
        "lower_cutoff_freq": 50,
        "higher_cutoff_freq": 10000,
        "method": "pulse",
        "source": "auto",
        "stereo": true,
        "reverse": false,
        "bar_delimiter": 0,
        "monstercat": false,
        "waves": false,
        "noise_reduction": 0.77,
        "input_delay": 2,
        "format-icons" : ["▁", "▂", "▃", "▄", "▅", "▆", "▇", "█" ],
        "actions": {
                   "on-click-right": "mode"
                   }
    },

    "backlight": {
        "device": "intel_backlight",
        "format": "{icon} {percent}%",
        "format-icons": ["?", "?", "?"],
        "on-scroll-up": "brightnessctl set 1%+",
        "on-scroll-down": "brightnessctl set 1%-",
        "min-length": 6
    },

    "battery": {
        "states": {
            "good": 95,
            "warning": 30,
            "critical": 20
        },
        "format": "{icon} {capacity}%",
        "format-charging": " {capacity}%",
        "format-plugged": " {capacity}%",
        "format-alt": "{time} {icon}",
        "format-icons": ["?", "?", "?", "?", "?", "?", "?", "?", "?", "?", "?"]
    },

    "pulseaudio": {
        "format": "{icon} {volume}%",
        "tooltip": false,
        "format-muted": "?Muted",
        "on-click": "pamixer -t",
        "on-scroll-up": "pamixer -i 5",
        "on-scroll-down": "pamixer -d 5",
        "scroll-step": 5,
	"on-click-right" : "pavucontrol"
    },

    "pulseaudio#microphone": {
        "format": "{format_source}",
        "format-source": " {volume}%",
        "format-source-muted": " Muted",
        "on-click": "pamixer --default-source -t",
        "on-scroll-up": "pamixer --default-source -i 5",
        "on-scroll-down": "pamixer --default-source -d 5",
        "scroll-step": 5
    },
    
    "network": {
        "format-wifi": "  {signalStrength}% | {bandwidthTotalBits}",
        "format-ethernet": "{ipaddr}/{cidr}",
        "tooltip-format": "{essid} - {ifname} via {gwaddr}",
        "format-linked": "{ifname} (No IP)",
        "format-disconnected": "Disconnected ⚠",
        "format-alt": "{ifname}:{essid} {ipaddr}/{cidr}"
    }
}

Last edited by prosteSebastian (2023-08-01 11:46:24)

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#7 2023-08-01 11:55:51

dogknowsnx
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Re: Putting cava into the waybar

I'm not using the 'jsonc' format, but I would start troubleshooting it w/o the 'cava_config' line...

#8 2023-08-01 12:02:03

prosteSebastian
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Re: Putting cava into the waybar

I've tried it w/o the config line, same result with 'Unknown module'

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#9 2023-08-01 12:16:27

dogknowsnx
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Re: Putting cava into the waybar

Apparently 'waybar' is built without cava support.
You could try 'waybar-hyprland-git' (AUR), or rebuild 'waybar' with cava support enabled...

EDIT: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wayb … d-cava-git

Last edited by dogknowsnx (2023-08-01 12:24:45)

#10 2023-08-01 12:35:01

prosteSebastian
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Re: Putting cava into the waybar

The https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/wayb … d-cava-git is working,
thanks a lot and have a nice day smile.

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#11 2023-12-12 10:08:57

mutoroglin
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Re: Putting cava into the waybar

I wanted to update the package status if someone uses the search function and stumbles over this thread with a similar question:

The suggested package waybar-hyprland-cava-git is no longer maintained since a set of hypland widgets have been natively added to waybar.
Furthermore the CAVA module requires that you install libcava.

I setup two packages to overcome the issues: libcava installs cava as a library, waybar-cava installs waybar with all widgets including cava enabled. You do not have to install libcava manually, it comes as a dependency of the waybar-cava package.
One last note on the libcava package: it does not install the cli program cava. That is available via the AUR-package cava.

Last edited by mutoroglin (2023-12-12 10:10:16)

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#12 2024-12-13 22:39:46

gejore
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Re: Putting cava into the waybar

I tried waybar-cava, but cava acts strange in it (it's lagging and showing that all frequencies are max)

I wrote this script: https://github.com/jvc84/wayves
It can show cava in waybar (and polybar), also it can separate left and right channels into different modules and play different animations according to off/play/pause of mpris player

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